4 detained in lost phone finder scam
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FOUR men have been detained on suspicion of cheating people out of hundreds of thousands of yuan by offering to trace their missing mobile phones, police said yesterday.
The suspects — all men aged 22 — are accused of posting advertisements on baidu.com, China’s leading Internet search engine, claiming to be able to locate lost handsets using GPS.
The quartet operated from the city of Danzhou in south China’s Hainan Province, though their victims were based across the country, police said.
A man from Shanghai’s Minhang District contacted the police in June claiming the group had cheated him out of 18,660 yuan (US$2,900) on the promise of finding his lost iPhone.
He said he made contact with the alleged swindlers via the QQ messaging service and made the payment in installments over a period of days.
Police are investigating.
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