People need to be vigilant against websites that impersonate authorities to commit fraud.

According to experts, fake websites often ask users to provide a lot of information to steal personal data. In some cases, as soon as users access these websites, warnings, threats or attractive winning programs with many valuable gifts will appear to deceive and entice users, redirecting access to unsafe websites.

According to statistics from the Department of Information Security, Ministry of Information and Communications , in just the first 3 weeks of April 2024, the center's warning system received nearly 630 user reports on online fraud cases. Through inspection and analysis, experts from the Department of Information Security found that there were many cases of fraud impersonating agencies, organizations, businesses, suppliers, and large services such as some ministries, social networking sites, banks, emails, public services... In fact, this is one of the familiar tricks that subjects often use to attack and defraud users. Therefore, people need to be extremely careful and carefully verify the links before logging in to protect themselves.

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The list of fake websites recently warned by the Information Security Department, some of which have domain names quite similar to the units, organizations, and brands they impersonate. However, it can be seen that these links have less common extensions such as: .store, .vip, .online, ... or some others are strings of characters, strange numbers ... Besides, according to experts, fake websites often require users to provide a lot of information to steal personal data. In some cases, as soon as users access these websites, warnings, threats or attractive winning programs with many valuable gifts will appear to deceive and entice users, directing access to other unsafe websites containing malicious code.

Mr. Pham Tuan An, Department of Information Security, Ministry of Information and Communications noted that legitimate websites often have short, easy-to-remember addresses and often start with http and have a lock icon, while fake websites are often quite long, complicated and do not start with http and do not have a lock icon. Second, the design of legitimate websites is often professionally designed, easy to see, easy to use. While fake websites often have simple designs and lack professionalism.

By the end of April 21, the national anti-online fraud database had updated more than 124,600 fake website addresses related to online fraud. This database is now directly connected to Coc Coc browser and Zalo system..., to automatically protect domestic Internet users from online fraud websites. In addition to warning users, cybersecurity experts recommend that agencies, organizations, and businesses proactively scan to detect early fraudulent websites that impersonate their units, and warn users early. Thereby, contributing to preventing online fraud activities, ensuring information security for users and protecting the organization's own brand.

Mr. Ha Minh Vu, Vietnam Network Security Joint Stock Company, recommends that when websites require login, people must check whether this is an official website or not. If it is just a website to get information, people should not fill it in. Because these sites will get login information or other social welfare information. Along with that, according to Mr. Vu, we should not click on strange links. In addition, when using browsers on computers, we can add supporting software to determine whether the software is malicious or not?

As of the first quarter of 2024, the technical system of the Ministry of Information and Communications, directly under the Department of Information Security, has proactively blocked more than 10,000 malicious domain names, including more than 2,700 online fraud domain names. Thanks to that, it has protected more than 10 million people, equivalent to over 13% of Vietnamese Internet users, from online fraud attacks and violations of the law in cyberspace.

According to Viet Cuong/VOV1

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