What is the main difference between online fraud and general fraud?

First, the main difference between online fraud and general fraud: neither of them is a crime of criminal law. Economic fraud and online fraud are actually fraud crimes. Online fraud only shows that the fraud method is through the Internet, and ordinary fraud adopts other methods.

Second, the characteristics of online fraud: the crime of online fraud refers to the behavior of the perpetrator to illegally possess other people's property, with the help of computers, by adopting fictional facts or concealing the truth, to defraud other people's property. The difference between it and the general crime of fraud lies mainly in the way of fraud. Internet fraud has the following characteristics:

1, the scope of fraud is wide. Cheaters generally cast a wide net and focus on training, as long as a few people take the bait, they can achieve their goals. After the victim took the bait, the swindler set up a series of condoms and cheated at different levels.

2. Off-site derailment. Because of the borderless nature of the Internet, fraudsters often choose "fish" from different places to cheat, and victims generally do not go directly to other places to find fraudsters after taking the bait. Even if the case is reported to the public security organ, it will take a long time for the public security organ to handle the case in different places. This is also the reason why fraudsters choose to cheat in different places.

3. The fraudster doesn't have to contact the victim directly, so it is extremely concealed. Fourth, destroy all online evidence after success, disappear quickly, and it is difficult to find traces; Then create a set of online virtual identities and false information to "return to the old business."

4. There are various means of online fraud, and modern technology and professional technology are skillfully used.

5. Intelligent crime tools. With computers and networks as tools for committing crimes, the development of the network has formed a virtual world that interacts with the real world and is relatively independent. Intelligent criminals take advantage of the non-regional nature of the Internet to commit transnational and cross-regional crimes.