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The three little pigs travelled to Hong Kong and went to a carnival. The two smaller pigs were constantly deceived with various ways. Their big brother then explained to them with statistics and they finally learnt a lesson.
Once upon a time, in a certain dimension, there lived the famous three little pigs. After they fought big bad wolf, they slowly became wealthy, and decided to travel around the world to broaden their horizons.
The three little pigs actually had names: the big brother was called Pingda, the next boy was called Pingy and the little girl was called Pinky.
Their first stop was Hong Kong.
The smartest Pingda first warned his siblings, “We have to take great attention to our belongings. It is not that safe in this place, we have to be cautious all the time.”
“Really? I thought the crime rate had been dropping continuously since 2008, so it should be quite safe instead.”
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“Well you are correct. Look at the crime cases from 2008 to 2018, you could indispensably realised that the crime has kept dropping, From 78469 cases in 2008 drops to 54225 cases in 2018, which drops in a significant 30%. At the same time, the population since 1986 has been booming nonstop, there are 5524600 citizens in 1986 and it increases to 7391000 citizens, which shows a 33.8%. It is crystal clear that the relationship between population and overall crime has shown negative correlation, we only have as what my little brother just said, that means one people will only have 0.007337 chances to encounter a crime. Hong Kong is basically becoming a safe place to live.”
There was police patrolling around. So Pingda explained, “There used to have huge number of police in Hong Kong, but it has decreased over the years. But the quality of the police has improved as well to support the cut down of police.”
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“But, listen carefully. The number of reported cases of all crimes had been decreasing except one- deception. In 2008, there was only 4653 cases, but after ten years it is increased to 8372 cases. It dropped a while during 2016 but the cases has risen again.”
The three little pigs decided to go to the AIA The Great European Carnival to play. It was Sunday, therefore there was a lot of people queuing to buy tickets. As the line never seemed to move, Pinky soon lost her patience, and ran around.
She was distracted by a man wearing a uniform and standing nearby. “The queue is so long. Come and buy instantly tickets here!” He yelled towards the crowd.
Wanting to go into the carnival to play as soon as possible, she approached the man. The man handed the girl pig a tablet, and asked her to fill in some information in their website to buy the ticket.
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The website looked legitimate, with logos of AIA. Pinky filled in her personal information without any hesitation and the man said, “You will receive an email soon and with that email you could get into the carnival.”
Pinky ran to Pingda and shared her joy with him, but he was not happy at all.
“You were just deceived!!!!!! I told you to be cautious all the time, but you didn’t even pay a tinge bit of extra attention. Now, what information did you fill in?” Pingda scolded her and asked.
“It’s not really a lot. I filled in my ID number, email, address, name, your contact information…”
“Stop! That is obviously just a deceiver with a fraudulent website. You didn’t even fill in payment options or related stuff, how could you just simply fall into this flagrant trap!” He exclaimed.
Pinky felt sad, so she decided to scroll her phone to consume time. Soon, an email notification popped out. She clicked inside and was delighted to discover that it was the email that the man mentioned.
The whole email seemed formal, with proper registers and closings. The structure was clear and diplomatic, and at the ending of the email, it wrote,
“Click into the link to pay for the tickets. To let your time in AIA Carnival be more well spend, download our app here.”
With no indecision, she clicked into the link, and a proper form of XYZ
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bank appeared in front of her eyes. The big brother, who was glancing at her, observed the whole process.
“STOP!!!!”, he shouted to her, “That’s obvious a scam as well! You just received a scam and clicked into a website with a suspicious internet banking login screen. The other link is likely a suspicious app as well. ”
Pinky was obviously not convinced. Those emails and websites looked official and trustworthy. Her other brother, Pingy, laughed at her as well.
Irritated by her brother’s attitude to her, she clicked into the other link of downloading their app. Soon she was directed into an unknown website, with advertisements popping out interminably. Her phone lagged and she needed to reboot it.
Her big brother, who gave up stopping her, looked at her throughout the whole process. She was finally convinced that she was just deceived.
Pingda started to explain,
“Actually deceiving is quite common nowadays, living in high-technology era. The deceivers are adroit in using the internet to create deception. That was a fraudulent website which you had a 56% chance to face if you were trapped in internet deception. So over half of the victims made the same mistake as you. In fact, if you hadn’t clicked into the website, you had a
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“We can find out that the internet has a sharp increase from 2016 to 2017, especially the phishing email has increased a sharp 102% and fraudulent website has increased 26.25%, it is easy to guess that the internet deception is rising in the future.”
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It was finally their turn to buy tickets and enter the carnival. Suddenly, Pingy’s phone rung.
“Hello, do you remember me?” A women asked.
Pingy guessed from the voice that it might be his aunt, so he replied, “Are you Auntie? ”
“Yes of course I am. Actually a car accident just happened and I got injured…”
“What!!??” Pingy panicked.
“The problem is that I don’t have enough money with me, could you lend me some money by transferring some to my bank account? It’s so urgent!
Please help me!!!” The women yelled at the phone.
Pingy was worried. He loved his aunt a lot, therefore he immediately asked Pingda for help. But Pingda proclaimed, “You just received a “Guess who I am” telephone deception! We didn’t even tell her that we were travelling to Hong Kong and got a new phone card! You should calm down and analyze the facts before panicking!”
Pingda explained to him patiently, “ This type of deception takes up 0.51 chance if you get into the telephone deception, the deceivers will wait for your response to deceive who he or she is, then they will fabricate a story, like being injured one ask you to pay for them. You need to be vigilant to any calls.”
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The three little pigs decided to play the spinning coaster. Unfortunately, the queue was long as well and they needed to wait.
“Ring…” This time it was Pinky’s phone ringing.
“I’m from the Customs and Excise Department. I’m calling to inform you that your package had some problems so it is kept here. If you want that package back, you’d better transfer a decent amount of money…”
Pinky was frightened. She sobbed, and asked Pingda for help, “My package is detained by the customs and I need to pay for it to pass…”
“...It’s fake.”, Pingda replied instantly, “Customs in Hong Kong wouldn’t ask you to pay for packages that have problem. Problems can’t be solved by money. Nowadays, many deceivers pretend to be officers, and try to deceive people’s money. The chance of getting into these crime is quite high: 0.46. It is just slightly lower than falling into “Guess Who I Am”
cases.”
Pinky was feeling unwell so she went to the toilet.
Suddenly, Pingy’s phone rung.
A vague voice came out from the phone, “Your friend is in extreme danger now. She is kidnapped by me and I would only release her if I receive
$444444. Now if you dare scream….”
“AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!” Pingy screamed since he was apprehensive.
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Seeing Pingy acting crazy, Pingda snatched his phone and listened to the phone call. He immediately called off the phone and calmed him down, looking at Pinky who just stepped out from the toilet, “That was simply a scam. It was a fabricated kidnap deception. You need to learn how to discern which phone calls are real and which aren’t.”
“This is the swindle of fabricated kidnapping and the swindler pretends to kidnap your relatives or friends. Only around 0.03 people will get tricked and deceived, as it is unrealistic.”
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You two just received several types of telephone deception. Actually 85%
of the victims would lose money in 2017, so you should be lucky that I stopped you. Normally, most people don’t lose money, but starting from 2016, the numbers started to reverse.”
Pingda kept on talking, “As the telephone deception is quite common, we can analyse the distribution of telephone deception cases among all the cases, from 2015 to 2017, the telephone deception is taking a less proportion with 30.8% in 2015 to 13.8% in 2017, we will encounter the telephone deception less likely suppose we get into a scam.”
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After a long time, it was finally their turn to play the spinning coaster. The spinning coaster made Pinky dizzy and felt sick, so they rested aside.
Suddenly, a women approached them, “Hi, little pig, you seem to be sick.
I can observe that some evil spirits invading her. If you don’t clear them, bad luck would stick to her. However, with my unique blessing, the spirits will disappear into ashes…”
“Shut up!”, Pingda shouted to the women, “Stop deceiving, I know that you would then ask for money.”
The women ran away and Pingda said, “Now that kind of deceiving is called spiritual blessing gang, they will tell superstitious stuff, and once you believe you would fall into the fraud to pay money and buy the
“medicine”. ”
“If you occur street deception, there is 0.6 chance you will fall into the above deception and mostly elder suffer so. So, that is why I think you are
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a bit idiotic…” Pinda shaked his head helplessly.
“Hey little piggy, you screamed deep from your throat like ten minutes ago,”
Said a passing by man,” Screaming harms your throat.”
The man then took a leaflet out and pointed to it, “This medicine would fix all your sore throats. With just $1234, you could buy one. I guarantee you that your throat would feel much better after taking just a pill... ”.
Pingda literally rolled his eyes, and spoke, “Please, sir, we are not idiots.
You are selling fake medicine. You are deceiving innocent kids. Now please leave or else I would call the police!”
Pinky and Pingy was surprised that that man was a deceiver as well.
“Street deception includes medicine gang, and also electronic component deception, intentionally dropping money, these three cases have taken up 40% chance if one has encountered telephone deception.”
Suddenly, Pinky asked Pingda for some money, “Could you lend me
$1000? My friend need some money urgently.”
“Who is her? How come I didn’t know the whole thing?” Pingda questioned.
“It’s a friend that I met online. He is a super talented pig and he is so handsome as well, he is so attractive! Please could I borrow some money from you?” She replied with her childish voice.
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“I won’t, as he is obviously a deceiver as well. You don’t even know him in real life, how could you ensure that he is trustworthy? You can’t even know if he is really male. You just experienced another type of online scam:
the online romance scam.” Pingda replied, “Online romance scam is when someone attracts another via internet and try to deceive their money, by using their conscience.”
Pingda searched online, and continued, “It is also known as cyber romance deception. This scam is one of the scams that is significantly increasing these years, as social media is getting more prevalent these days.”
“Back in 2014, there were only 29 cases the whole year. But in the already incomplete data of 2018, which only consisted data from January to September, is already 463. That is a nearly 16 times difference!”
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“Following the rise of cases, the amount of money lost due to them has also increased a lot. We could all obviously observe a sharp increase of money involved during 2017 to 2018. Do mind the chart actually did not have all data of 2018 yet, but the increase is already noticeable.”
“It is interesting to notice the selection of what the cybercriminal will do to spend their money. 30% of them will convert money to asset, which is
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quite a silly action as the police can easily check their accounts and they will be discovered of doing illegal trading. Don’t fall into traps and let them spend your money!” He concluded.
After playing in the carnival for the whole day, the three pigs were exhausted. They walked out from the exit and met the man carrying a tablet that deceived Pinky the start of the day. Seeing the three pigs walking around, he ran away, and Pinky moaned.
Pinky and Pingy had surely learnt a valuable lesson that day. They were deceived for so many times, and they experienced many different kinds of deception, including clicking into suspicious website and phishing email, getting telephone deception such as “Guess who I am”, “Counterfeit official”, and “fabricated kidnapping”. Last but not least, they also encountered cyber deception included romance deception, blessing deception and medicine deception.
They had learnt to pay attention to all the opportunities and lucky chances they we given, and to be aware of all suspicious people approaching them.
Even if something seemed to be legitimate, they knew that they should think more before completely believing what others claimed to be true.
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