Warning about scams pretending to be Shopee e-commerce platform and how to recognize it

Shopee is one of the four most popular e-commerce exchanges in Vietnam today. According to the 2022 E-commerce Industry Ranking, Shopee alone accounted for nearly 73% of the total sales of 4 exchanges and became the most popular e-commerce platform in Vietnam. This makes many bad guys take advantage of Shopee's reputation and reputation to scam and profit from customers. Let's Anti-Phishing (CLD) learn more through the article below.

I. The general situation of Shopee e-commerce floor being deceived by bad guys

1. Warning to impersonate Shopee to steal personal information

Recently, users of e-commerce platforms including Shopee continuously received a call from a person claiming to be a customer service agent, announcing that Shopee was running a customer gratitude program. Each customer will receive a gift of their choice (usually of great value such as a rice cooker, a smart mop).

Customers do not need to pay any expenses but must contact a Telegram account to provide and verify personal information. The personal information these subjects require are usually Full Name, Date of Birth, Phone Number, Address and other personal information, there are even cases where the bad guys ask customers to send a photo of their citizen's identity. or other identification documents.

2. Shopee impersonation warning to send fake orders

There are many ways for bad guys to access and get information commonly used by customers to order on electronic platforms, thereby creating fake orders that do not exist on Shopee's system, but take advantage of Shopee's name to transact with customers. These fake orders can range in value from small to large.

3. Warning to impersonate Shopee to scam recruitment

In June 2022, Hanoi police broke down a fake Shopee line to cheat and appropriate property in cyberspace. This scam group impersonates Shopee, posting on groups of popular social networks such as Facebook and Zalo to recruit collaborators to buy virtual orders at high prices in order to appropriate the victim's property.

Initially, victims are tasked with small-value orders and are likely to actually receive “commissions”. However, once the victim's trust is gained, the scammer will issue high-value orders and ask the victim to pay in advance. After receiving a large amount of money, the scammer will use many different reasons that make the victim not only unable to withdraw the money, but also have to spend more money to expect to withdraw the money previously spent.

After successful redemption, the victim is unable to continue to pay or discovers a fraudulent trick, the scammer will immediately delete the account or block the method of communication with the victim.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the demand for jobs, especially online jobs from home, has always increased. This makes it easy for job postings “light jobs – high salaries” to attract users of social networks.

II. Summary of Shoppe fake websites listed by CLD

Currently, in Anti-Phishing database More than 250 fake Shopee links have been recorded to cheat and scam to get information.

Here are 10/257 links (filtered from 16,990 entries) last updated by Anti-Phishing at the end of March.

III. Detailed instructions on how to recognize fake website

1. Get to know by scamadviser.com

ScamAdviser is one of the reputable websites in the world that analyzes the safety or fraud of other websites. Use ScamAdviser to check links "shopee1[.]xyz“.

ScamAdviser reviews here Not is a reputable website because:

You can also refer to other detailed technical reviews to understand why this site has low credibility. However, the positive highlights section also shows that DNSFilter thinks the site is safe. So if you want to test a website, you should use many different tools.

2. Identify by virustotal.com

VirusTotal is a website that combines many anti-virus software and is an online scan tool to check for viruses that regular antivirus software can miss. Use VirusTotal to check “shopee1[.]xyz“.

3. Identify by scam.vn

In addition, users can also check the reliability of the website by Scam.vn.

In addition to some similar reviews to ScamAdviser, Scam.vn also pointed out that part of the technology background of this website has been determined to be high risk.

4. Identify by browser installed with security protection

Currently, some browsers have security settings to prevent and warn users when you visit unsafe websites.

Especially some browsers like Microsoft Edge, Opera and Coc Coc have built-in blacklist data from Anti-Phishing without you having to install anything.

5. Identify by website of Anti-Phishing

One of the fastest and most accurate ways to know which websites are fake Shopee is to visit chongluadao.vnPhishing websites are constantly updated so you can keep up with the latest information.

The steps to use Anti-Phishing to check a link are as follows:

Alternatively, you can directly enter the website link like “https://*.shopeec[.]xyz/"good"http://*.shopeeukien[.]com/” into the search bar to check.

IV. Some notes and recommendations to know to avoid being scammed

1. For scams impersonating to steal information

2. For scam to send fake orders

• To avoid being scammed by bad guys, you should:
  • Only receive orders that are displayed on Shopee's system and have been updated with the "shipping" status.
  • Check that important information such as Order ID, Bill of Lading, Consignee/Sender information match the information displayed on the system, before proceeding to receive goods and transactions.
  • Prioritize payment methods, pay directly when buying on Shopee
  • If you find suspicious signs, you can refuse to receive the goods and contact Shopee's hotline for support
• Should limit asking others to receive or receive on behalf of others, if any, you should also perform the same checks as above.
• Unless absolutely necessary, you should not disclose (or easily disclose) your order and payment information to others.

3. For recruitment scams