Chinese woman meets "ideal type" online, pays $700,000

Recently, the Consulate General in Los Angeles issued a series of consular protection warnings, citing several real cases to remind overseas Chinese to guard against telecommunication network fraud.

Such cases are highly prevalent in the Chinese community and have many different routines, and the Embassy and Consulates in the United States have issued reminders about them many times.

Recently, the relevant cases have resurfaced, in order to further enhance the people's anti-fraud and anti-fraud awareness and ability, the embassy to real cases as an example, explaining various types of fraud routines, I hope that everyone keep a sharp eye, beware of being cheated.

Chinese women encountered online dating "pig killing disk" fraud

International female student Liu Mou met her "ideal" boyfriend Sun Mou on a dating platform, who claimed to be an international student from a prestigious university with good family conditions.

Often send some "own" photos, and Liu Mou hush, very considerate, a "quality male" image.

Sun said he wanted to run a hot pot restaurant with Liu Mou, promised to travel around the United States together, Liu Mou soon fell into a "sweet love".

One day, Sun claimed that his mother's sudden illness, in urgent need of money, Liu Mou rushed to play money to Sun.

Subsequently, a year, Sun Mou and his mother follow-up treatment as an excuse, constantly asking for money, a total of more than 70 million yuan.

Finally, Liu said no money to borrow by Sun black, only to realize that he was deceived.

Fraudsters usually packaged themselves as "quality men and women", fast and the victim to establish and operate a "romantic relationship".

Deceive the trust, to encounter changes in the urgent need for money, project funding difficulties for the reason of asking for money, or lure the victim to invest in virtual platforms and so on.

In addition to the "online dating class", recently also appeared "job-seeking class", "rental class" and other new types of pig-killing plate fraud, fraudsters disguised as financial elites, housing tenants, etc., to take advantage of the different needs of the victim! The fraudsters disguised as financial elites, housing tenants, etc., to take advantage of the different needs of the victims, to gain trust after the implementation of fraud.

The embassy and consulates in the United States to remind the Chinese in the United States, network dating need to be careful, if strangers put forward investment, shopping, lending money, money transfer requirements, be sure to be vigilant, do not easily transfer money.

If you encounter fraud, please immediately report to the police, pay attention to collect fraudsters identity information, the account number involved, transfer records and other evidence.

If the fraudulent money is transferred through domestic banks, please call the domestic police or seek help from the police through domestic relatives or friends.

Financial guru? Professional scammers!

Li, a professor at a university in the United States, met Guo, a self-proclaimed foreign exchange trader, on a social networking site.

Guo claimed that he has a special way, using a specific mobile platform, a year profit of more than 100 million, can bring Li together to invest money.

Lured by Guo Mou, Li Mou with the account number provided by Guo Mou in a fake investment platform called "XX Gold Exchange" operation.

Li found that the platform has a high return, and can be a small amount of cash, sure that the platform can realize profits, so in a year has invested more than 300,000 U.S. dollars in the platform.

A year later, Li found that the platform due to "system risk" can not withdraw cash, Guo Mou has pulled his black, realize that has been cheated.

The Embassy and Consulates in the United States remind again, do not trust the informal pipeline recommended investment and finance.

All labeled "insider information, expert guidance, steady income, high returns" of the network investment and finance are fraud.

Fraudulent investment and finance fraud APP can not be searched in the formal application market, fraudsters will guide the victim to scan the QR code or click on a third-party website to download and install the APP.

Please be sure to raise anti-fraud awareness, do not arbitrarily download the unknown investment APP, meet the so-called "financial guru", "investment mentor" to maintain a high degree of vigilance.

Fraudsters through the modification of background data, to the victim to share false withdrawals screenshots, luring the victim to open an account for investment.

Victims of small investments in the first test of the water will generally get rebates, and then once the increase in capital investment, it will not be able to withdraw cash.

Fraudsters and then to pay deposits, personal income tax, unfreezing gold and other reasons to continue to induce transfers, the victim eventually transferred a large amount of money after the fraudsters pull black.

Your child was really kidnapped?

Domestic Zhang received a self-proclaimed "kidnapper" phone call, said his son Wang Mou (with his father's different surnames) in the United States due to gambling debts of 1 million U.S. dollars, is now under control, and asked to pay the ransom immediately.

"Kidnappers" sent a video, the video Wang Mou nose and face, holding a written 1 million U.S. dollars in debt, crying and asking the family to repay the debt as soon as possible.

Worried about her son's safety, Zhang transferred more than 500,000 yuan to the kidnappers several times, and then finally called the police and the embassy for help.

In the embassy and the U.S. police joint efforts, Wang was safely found. The police investigated the case and said it was a "virtual kidnapping": Wang received a call from someone claiming to be AT&T customer service, who said that a phone card in her name was being used for fraud.

Next, the phone to the so-called "domestic city Public Security Bureau". The other party said that Wang was suspected of money laundering "major crimes" to carry out "top-secret investigation" for the reason that it was required to hide alone in a hotel, with the outside world completely cut off contact.

Subsequently, the other party to forged "arrest book" and other files to intimidate, said that if "cooperate with the police to complete the secret mission" can be dealt with leniently, induced Wang Mou self-directed shooting video of the kidnapping, and this video on the parents to intimidate.

Parents can not contact Wang Mou for a long time, believe it, to the fraudsters remittance.

 -induced to shoot a fake video - fraudulent ransom "four steps.

Will also use tampering caller ID, forged legal documents, AI imitation of the victim's audio and video and other advanced means, it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.

The Embassy and Consulate in the United States reminds us to be vigilant against this kind of "virtual kidnapping" fraud, and not to believe it easily if we receive suspicious phone calls claiming that "the police are handling the case" or "assisting in the investigation".

When handling cases, public security authorities will not ask for the signing of so-called confidentiality letters, let alone ask victims to make up their own kidnapping cases.

In addition, the public security authorities will not handle cases online, nor will they require the use of overseas social networking software to regularly report personal updates.

Parents of international students who receive suspicious phone calls claiming that their children have been kidnapped should report the case to the police immediately, and should not transfer money easily.

Don't be fooled by "fake police" and "fake customer service" again!

A Chinese student, Lin Mou, received a phone call from a bank claiming to be its customer service representative, who claimed that his bank card had been used for money laundering overseas and that he was suspected of human and gun trafficking, and that he needed to cooperate with the investigation.

The caller was then transferred to "Officer Zhang" of the "Public Security Bureau of a certain place in China".

"Officer Zhang" on his soft and hard, showing the so-called case acceptance, wanted notice, police officer card, etc., requiring the person concerned to sign a confidentiality book, regular reports on personal dynamics, and also constantly threatened Lin students.

During this period, he also kept threatening Lin, "Your case is very serious, you must keep it confidential, and you are not allowed to tell anyone", "If you do not cooperate, you will be arrested".

After hearing this, Lin was extremely frightened and finally followed the instructions of the other party to transfer all 200,000 U.S. dollars to a designated "safe account".

After the transfer, Mr. Lin continued to ask about the progress of his case. After receiving the money, the other party told him to "surrender" to the Chinese Embassy.

Lin then brought his luggage to the embassy to "turn himself in", after the embassy staff patiently explained that he realized that he had been cheated.

The embassy statement emphasized that we must raise anti-fraud awareness, rationally identify various types of fraud, do not gullible, do not transfer money, to avoid being deceived. If you have been scammed, please report to the local police in time.

Overseas high incidence of case types include: impersonation of public prosecutors and law enforcement fraud, virtual currency investment and financial fraud, false foreign exchange fraud, impersonation of acquaintances fraud, corporate email fraud, overseas high-paying recruitment scams and so on.

In addition, the victim should also beware of being secondary fraud, fraudsters have been cheated by the use of the victim is easy to fall for, stop the loss of eagerness to cheat again, pretending to be Internet police, lawyers and other identities, has the right to recover money as a bait, once again cheating victims of money.