Please be a Chinese citizen overseas and take strict precautions!, The Chinese Consulate General in Melbourne: A New Approach to Telefraud
The Consulate General in Melbourne has identified several new types of fraud schemes based on recent real cases of telecommunications fraud. Chinese citizens in the consular area must be vigilant and take practical measures to prevent falling into the trap of telecommunications fraud.
New Method One: "Judicial Documents" Delivery to Door
Xiao Li is a graduate student at the University of Melbourne. Recently, he received a voice call from a courier company saying that there was a package to be collected. He was then transferred to a domestic public security, procuratorial, and legal agency staff who claimed that his credit card was involved in an overseas money laundering case. Surprisingly, Xiao Li received a "door-to-door service" from the so-called "law enforcement agency.". The fraudsters took the initiative to knock on the door and deliver forged arrest warrants and confidentiality agreements, demanding that Xiao Li sign them in person. After experiencing a series of "combination punches", Xiao Li has fallen deeply into the scam trap and is required to transfer money into a so-called "clearance account", causing huge economic losses.
New trick two: "Virtual kidnapping" cross regional
Telecom fraudsters have launched a new tactic of "virtual kidnapping" against Chinese international students! In order to evade the Australian police's use of mobile phones to locate and track the victim, fraudsters have begun to force and induce the victim to travel to Southeast Asia and some countries or regions with poor security, posing a great risk to the victim's personal safety.
New trick three: impersonating an embassy or consulate to obtain information
Chinese citizen Xiao Zhang, due to his busy work schedule, has entrusted a third party to submit documents to our library. Later, he received a phone call pretending to be a staff member of our library, falsely claiming that there were problems with the documents and procedures he processed. He requested that Xiaozhang immediately provide personal information such as business order number, name, and bank card, and seize the opportunity to obtain personal information, in an attempt to deceive. Xiao Zhang felt that the request for personal and bank information did not match the actual situation of the certificate application, so he hung up the phone and immediately called our library to verify. Only then did he realize that he had received a fraudulent phone call.
New trick four: Inducing network pig killing dish
Xiao Wang, a graduate of Monash University, hoped to find a part-time job through Facebook, but was induced by fraudsters to engage in online investment and financial management, causing significant economic losses. According to Xiao Wang, scammers actively request to add Xiao Wang as a friend through social media platforms such as WeChat groups and WhatsApp, and then use lies such as "advance payment of funds" and obtaining substantial profits in the short term as bait to lure Xiao Wang into investing in so-called "welfare websites". Once involved, they cannot extricate themselves, and the website will constantly lure victims to continue investing under the pretext of needing to recharge to redeem their "investment" funds, in order to achieve the goal of defrauding money.
Currently, overseas telecommunications fraud is rampant, with constantly evolving patterns, seriously infringing on the economic interests of Chinese citizens overseas, and damaging the image of our public security, procuratorial and judicial organs, as well as embassies and consulates abroad. Here, the Consulate General in Melbourne once again reminds Chinese citizens in the jurisdiction to strengthen screening when receiving express delivery, phone calls, text messages, and emails on a daily basis, and resolutely adhere to the three "whatever" principles:
Any phone recording notifying you to collect important documents, packages, or involving domestic cases is considered fraud;
Any request for bank account information or transfer of funds from you is considered fraud when the other party is uncertain;
Any phone call directly transferred to domestic public security, procuratorial and judicial organs is considered fraud;
Please encourage Chinese citizens in the region to actively improve their anti fraud skills through their own learning, develop a pair of keen eyes, and let telecommunications fraud nowhere to hide. Let's work together to curb the spread of telecommunications fraud!
