Did you receive a text message like `VVIP single shot excellent stock offer`?

Huhu & Company announced on the 24th that in the fourth quarter of last year, a total of 671 million,757 spam reports came in, an increase of 65,6242 from the same period last year. Huhu & Company runs a spam blocking app called’Hoohoo’.

The most common type of spam reported by Huhu users is loan solicitation spam, with a total of 1.82 million reports, up 660,000 from the same period last year. Then, about 1.54 million reports of spam related to stocks and investments increased by 62% compared to the same period last year.

The increased number of spam reports related to loans and investments seems to have a large impact on the government’s blocking of low-interest rate credit loans in order to block ‘spirituality (loaning with souls)’ and ‘investment in debt.’ In the second half of last year, when the stock craze for individual investors was on fire, third-party financial institutions and illegal lending businesses were rampant. A typical technique is to share unsubstantial investment information such as power stocks and operational stocks, or extortion of usage fees in the name of stock stock recommendations.

About 124,000 reports of’Smishing’, a fraudulent method that abused text messages, also increased by 30,000 from the previous year. The smishing technique is also changing from pretending to be a parcel delivery service or wedding invitation to a letter that promotes loans from savings banks and credit cards.

However, spam of’illegal games and gambling’, which ranked first in the annual report type for the three years from 2017 to 2019, showed a slowing trend. The number of reports of this type was about 1.41 million, and in the ranking of the most reported types, it was placed in third place behind loan recommendations and stocks and investments.

Heo Tae-beom, CEO of Huhu & Company, said, “We need to be more careful about stock and loan-related spam as it can pretend to be an institutional financial institution. Do not click on the internet URL address in the text. If you suspect fraud, install the Huhu app. You have to check whether it is smishing.

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