The embassy in France sorts out common scam traps and reminds Chinese citizens to pay attention

　　China News Service, September 6. According to the WeChat public account of the Chinese Embassy in France, recently, the Chinese Embassy in France has issued several security reminders through various platforms to warn Chinese citizens in France to beware of telecommunications fraud.

Regrettably, a large number of Chinese students studying in France have been defrauded recently, resulting in serious economic losses.

　　After sorting out, the main reasons for the deceived compatriots to believe the fraudsters are as follows:

　　1. Believing the identity of the other party's public officials.

Criminals often use technical means to disguise the caller number as the phone number of the Chinese embassy in France, the domestic public security department or the express company, telecommunications service operator, and guide the parties to go online for verification, thereby deceiving the parties to trust.

　　2. Trust the documents provided by the other party.

The criminals informed the caller that they were involved in major criminal cases involving illegal procurement and mailing of anti-epidemic materials, credit card fraud, and cross-border money laundering. ”, “Confidentiality Letter” and other documents to make the parties believe the truth.

　　3. Trust the other party to induce and intimidate.

Criminals often use "help to prove innocence" or "assist in handling cases" as bait to induce the parties to remit money to the so-called "safe account" for "fund custody", and some also induce the parties to take nude photos, record nude videos, etc. "cooperate with the investigation".

Some criminals will also use intimidation to control the parties not to go online, not to contact relatives and friends, to report their whereabouts on time, and then to commit fraud or "virtual kidnapping" on the grounds of "confidentiality of the case".

　　Fourth, the gullible financial trap.

Criminals make friends and online dating through social platforms. After gaining trust, they trick them into investing and betting on fake investment platforms.

Such platforms often use petty profits to trick users into making additional investments, and in the end they cannot withdraw cash and lose all their capital.

The criminals may also be packaged as "financial masters", pulling the parties into a "financial management group" full of "child care" to commit fraud.

　　The Chinese Embassy in France once again solemnly reminds Chinese citizens in France: as long as strangers let you send money, you must tighten the safety string!

　　1. The Chinese embassy in France and the domestic public security organs will not notify you by telephone that you are involved in credit card fraud, cross-border money laundering or other criminal cases.

　　2. The Chinese embassy in France will not notify the parties by telephone that the passport has expired or the residence card has expired, nor will they notify the embassy to pick up the package or official document.

　　3. The domestic public security organs will not contact you through WeChat, QQ, whatsApp, Instagram and other chat software, and will not send documents such as "police certificate", "arrest warrant", "confidentiality letter" through chat software.

　　4. Domestic public security and law enforcement agencies will not require remittances to "secure accounts" or payment of security funds by telephone, and will not require callers to call back to contact domestic public security bureaus, Interpol and other institutions.

　　5. Establish a correct view of financial management and love, be alert to all kinds of financial traps of "getting rich overnight", and don't blindly transfer money to strangers you have never met just because you can chat online.

　　If you cannot identify whether it is a fraudulent call, please promptly check with the Chinese Embassy in France or the Global Consular Protection and Service Emergency Call Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (+86-10-12308).

If you are unfortunate enough to be deceived, you should report the case to the French police in time, and at the same time to the domestic public security organ.

If the victim is unable to report the case directly to the domestic public security organ, he can report the case through his close relatives in China in time, and ask for help from the anti-telecom network fraud center where the case was reported (call 110 or 96110 to transfer to the anti-fraud center).