Vietnam Electricity Group is a special class state-owned enterprise in Vietnam with multi-industry business. Before 2006, EVN was a monopoly corporation that held all power generation sources, owned many large power plants in Vietnam, and the entire power transmission grid. Up to now, EVN still plays a particularly important role in distributing to households. This has caused many bad guys to take advantage of EVN's name to scam and profit from people, thereby appropriating property. So how to recognize and avoid being scammed? Let's Anti-Phishing (CLD) find out in the article below.
I. Current status of EVN impersonation fraud
1. Fake EVN website
Recently, Anti-Fraud continuously received reports from users about fake EVN websites. These websites are used to lure EVN customers to deposit money into virtual accounts. Depositing money on these fake websites is often disguised in many forms such as paying monthly electricity bills, investing, etc.
Not only do they trick victims into depositing money, these websites are also places to install and lure victims to download malicious mobile applications (apps).
If the victim launches these files to install the app, the malicious source code in the file will immediately be activated. This not only gives scammers the ability to control victims' phones, but can also use them to take over various types of accounts, including bank accounts, or potentially personal information. blackmail the victim.
2. Impersonating an electricity employee
In 2023, the Electricity Group continuously warned about the situation of customers receiving phone calls impersonating electricity employees.
In May, the Northern Electricity Corporation received reports about someone impersonating an electricity employee, contacting customers and saying they could have their power cut off or their power purchase contract cut off after 2 hours. since the call. From there, the subjects asked customers to pay fees to ensure that their electricity would not be cut off.
In early August, Ho Chi Minh City Electricity also warned about calls impersonating electricity employees. In addition to Ho Chi Minh City Electricity Corporation, a number of units under Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) also recorded the phenomenon of impersonating electricity employees calling electricity customers to commit fraud.
These subjects claimed to be employees of the regional electricity company, announcing that customers were on the list of 10% refunds on electricity bills for the first 6 months of 2023. To receive a refund, customers must install the application or Visit a fake website to deposit money or transfer 5,000-10,000 VND to your bank account to get an account number to refund the money.
According to statistics, in the first 6 months of 2023, there were more than 150 cases of customers reporting calls informing them of electricity debt, threatening to cut off electricity, or suspend electricity purchase contracts if they do not pay immediately.
II. Detailed instructions on how to recognize fraudulent websites
1. Identify scams 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 "cskh[.]evnspr[.]cc"
ScamAdviser reviews here Not is a reputable website because:
You can also refer to other detailed technical reviews to clearly understand why this website has low reliability.
Although this website has a valid SSL certificate, this certificate only shows the security of the communication channel between your machine and the website. SSL certificates also come in many levels, some scammers also prepare their website with a free SSL certificate.
DNSFilter rates this site as safe largely because it does not contain malicious code or files. 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 multiple antivirus software and is an online scanning tool to check for viruses that regular antivirus software may miss. Use VirusTotal to check “dienlucevn[.]com"
3. Identify by scam.vn
In addition, users can also check the reliability of the website by Scam.vn.
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 if there are websites impersonating Vietnam Electricity is to visit them 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:
In addition, you can enter the website link directly as in the search bar to check.
III. Some notes to avoid being scammed
1. For fake websites
You should note that the power company will not request personal information or install applications from websites of unknown origin. Be careful and pay attention to the factors below to ensure your safety:
2. For the trick of impersonating electricity employees
The trick of impersonating an electrician is not only used indirectly through calls and emails, but can also be used directly: the scammer will pretend to be an electrician, come to your home and approach. Friend. In this case, you should pay attention:
If you receive a call or email with threatening content, asking you to transfer money, otherwise the contract or electricity may be cut off, you should pay special attention, pay attention to a few things below:
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