China News Service, September 27. According to the website of the Chinese Consulate General in New York, in recent years, telecom fraud activities have continued to increase in the eastern United States.
During the epidemic, telecommunications fraud continued to take place. From time to time, Chinese citizens were deceived and suffered property losses.
Recently, Xu received an automatic voice call from the "Consulate General in New York" informing him to pick up the documents.
Xu connected to the manual service according to the prompt. After “inquiry”, "Consul General Zhang" found a legal document sent by the "Shanghai Public Security Bureau", informing Xu that he was under investigation for "suspicion of money laundering".
The call was then "transferred" to the "Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau," and "Police Officer Zhao" and "Prosecutor Li" appeared in turn. Not only were they "rigorous," they also sent police officer cards and arrest warrants through DingDing software. ", asked Xu to maintain real-time video calls and actively cooperate with confidential investigations.
During the "investigation", Xu also received a call with a number showing "911", and the "American police" also informed Xu that he was involved in money laundering crimes, saying that he was cooperating with the Chinese police to handle the case.
A series of incidents doubled Xu's pressure. From initial confusion to panic, he only wanted to get rid of the trouble as soon as possible, but unexpectedly step by step fell into the trap of the other party, and finally transferred nearly 100,000 US dollars to the "safe account" provided by the other party. .
Although the fraud in this case is clichéd, it coincides with Xu who recently lost his passport and was contacting the consulate general via email to apply for consular credentials. He relaxed his vigilance against calls from the consulate general, as well as the personalization of the crime size. "Scripts", forged "911" calls, and fictitious scenarios such as Sino-US joint investigations are still very deceptive.
Telecom fraud, prevention first!
Regardless of how criminals’ deception tricks are renovated, as long as they remain vigilant and master basic anti-fraud knowledge, they can effectively avoid being deceived.
The Consulate General in New York once again reminded the majority of compatriots in the consular district:
1. If you answer the call, you can judge it as a fraudulent call. Please hang up immediately without hesitation.
2. Any request for personal bank account information or transfer or remittance on the phone is a fraudulent call, please hang up immediately without hesitation.
3. The caller ID number can be forged. It is necessary to strengthen the screening of calls from Chinese embassies and consulates, banks, express companies, and relevant US government law enforcement agencies.
Do not disclose important personal information when answering calls, do not transfer or remit money.
4. The Consulate General will not ask for personal bank account information over the phone, will not notify the relevant personnel of the case or transfer the call to a domestic unit through the phone, will not urge the passport and other document procedures through the phone, and will not use the phone to process personal belongings. (Bank card, parcel) and other matters.
5. Please be vigilant about advertisements on social media and various online information, enhance the ability to identify false and false information, do not easily click on unknown network links, and do not open emails from unknown sources.
If Chinese citizens in the Eastern U.S. need consular assistance, they can call the Consular Protection Hotline of the Consulate General in New York: 212-6953125.
The global emergency call center for consular protection and services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: +86-10-12308 or +86-10-59913991.