Warnings issued on phone fraud
April 28, 2012, Saturday
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QIBAO police are warning the public to beware of telephone fraud after cracking four cases since March, one involving 740,000 yuan (US$119,354).
In March, a woman surnamed Zhang, who lives at a residential complex on Qixin Road, received a phone call claiming that a parcel sent to her from Yunnan Province was found to contain narcotics. She was told the parcel had been transferred to a police station and the case was under investigation.
The phone fraudsters, who pretended to be police, then told her that information about her bank account had been stolen and was now linked with a money-laundering scam. She was told to transfer money from her existing account to a new "safe" account provided by the sham police.
She was filling out the transfer forms at the bank when a personal emergency arose and she had to leave before she was finished. Then, feeling uneasy about it all, she called the Qibao police. They immediately smelled a rat and told her not to transfer the money.
Zhang was saved, but others haven't been so lucky. If any phone call seems suspicious, check with police before doing anything that a phone caller asks you to do, authorities advise.
In March, a woman surnamed Zhang, who lives at a residential complex on Qixin Road, received a phone call claiming that a parcel sent to her from Yunnan Province was found to contain narcotics. She was told the parcel had been transferred to a police station and the case was under investigation.
The phone fraudsters, who pretended to be police, then told her that information about her bank account had been stolen and was now linked with a money-laundering scam. She was told to transfer money from her existing account to a new "safe" account provided by the sham police.
She was filling out the transfer forms at the bank when a personal emergency arose and she had to leave before she was finished. Then, feeling uneasy about it all, she called the Qibao police. They immediately smelled a rat and told her not to transfer the money.
Zhang was saved, but others haven't been so lucky. If any phone call seems suspicious, check with police before doing anything that a phone caller asks you to do, authorities advise.
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