Attention international students! A comprehensive review of the five major overseas study fraud cases in 2018

>International students, please pay attention! China News Service, January 31 (China News Service, January 31) According to comprehensive US media reports, on January 27, local time, New Jersey, the United States...

For international students, "safety" should be one of the annual themes in 2018. Before international students go abroad, most of their understanding of overseas societies is a one-sided understanding based on fragmented and second-hand information. Many times, they do not correctly judge the environment in which they find themselves. Here, the editor has sorted out the new fraud cases in 2018 to remind international students to pay attention to safety!

1. Information fraud using social networking sites

Using social networking sites, criminals send out a link with an attachment. Once the victim clicks on the link in the company, a program is launched. The program will automatically scan your company phone number, find out who is the president, personal schedule appointment records, when to take vacations, etc.

After obtaining this information, the criminal sent an email to the company's financial personnel, saying that he owed money to a certain company and asked him to pay US$1 million to someone. So be careful what you post on social media, as organized crime is looking for it around the world.

2. Love scams

Criminal organizations will look for targets on some social media websites and dating websites.

Scammers will use sweet words to deceive many people. When netizens are "routified", they will say "I want to come over and meet you" and other verbal hints, but then they will say something is wrong at the best time when they are about to meet.

The reasons are often sudden illness, or trouble with the law, etc. The scammer will say: "Can you lend me money? Help me?" After transferring the money to the other party, the other party will block you.

3. Immigration fraud

This type of cases occurs all over the world, often targeting Western countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Scammers will usually pretend to be a government agency and claim you owe money and will be deported if you don't pay immediately. Victims are often new immigrants who don’t know much about the relevant laws and regulations and think they really owe money. Scammers usually ask for money to be transferred through Western Union.

4. Tax fraud

Similar to immigration fraud, organized criminals will target new immigrants, because new immigrants often do not understand that Canadian police and government officials will never ask residents for cash.

The scammer calls and claims to be from the tax bureau (CRA), telling the new immigrants that they owe relevant taxes and fees and will be arrested if they do not pay back. The old immigrants obviously knew that this was a scam.

5. False kidnapping

Many international students have received phone calls one after another. The other party claimed to be from the Canadian government or the United States and asked them not to contact anyone due to certain incidents or security concerns. International students are new here and don’t know much about the relevant laws and regulations. They think it’s just a call from the government, so they just believe it.

After defrauding the trust of international students, the scammers called their families in China and claimed that their children had been kidnapped in Canada and asked them to pay a large ransom.

Because these international students did not answer the phone, their families could not be contacted, so they believed it to be true and transferred money to the scammer's account.

Therefore, Chinese embassies and consulates abroad have issued notices. International students should not be fooled if they receive such calls.