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Police probe WeChat swindling scam
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POLICE in Jiading District are investigating a WeChat scam after a woman was swindled out of 1.9 million yuan (US$298,245).
The victim, surnamed Zhang, an accountant in a company in Jiading District, told police that she accepted a “friend” request from a person with her boss’s ID information on September 10. “I thought it was my boss with a new WeChat account,” she said.
Later the “boss” asked Zhang to make two bank transfers to a Shenzhen-based company’s account which added up to 1.9 million yuan, and promised that the “company” would return the money within 10 days.
Finding the transactions strange, Zhang then called up her real boss Wang only to discover she was a victim of a scam.
She immediately called the bank in the hope of stopping the transactions but the money had already gone through over 10 transfers in just five minutes. Wang said the 1.9 million yuan was all the company had and she was unable to pay her employees’ salary. “If she (Zhang) had just called before making the transfers, I think this wouldn’t have happened.”
Police have warned people to be careful of adding strangers on WeChat which gives them access to personal information which could be misused and stolen by others.
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