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Police help two women against phone scams
    2021-04-22  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

TWO women in Bao’an District were prevented from being scammed in two separate phone fraud cases recently.

On March 22, Baomin Police Station received an instruction from Bao’an District’s anti-fraud office, which said a woman surnamed Hu living in the Jian’an Xincun housing complex was suspected of being scammed by a caller who claimed to work for Nanjing police.

When community police officer Wen Rong and an anti-fraud volunteer arrived at Hu’s residence, Hu had left home and didn’t answer their phone calls.

Anti-fraud officer Zeng Yuxiang contacted Hu’s husband surnamed Huang and asked him to freeze the family’s bank accounts.

At around 7 p.m., Hu contacted her husband, who instantly dissuaded her from wiring the money to the scammers.

Hu later said that she received a call from a man who claimed to work for Nanjing police and informed Hu that she might have been involved in a fraud. The caller demanded that Hu transfer her money to a “safety account” to cooperate with police investigation.

Hu followed the instructions, but when she was about to do transfer to the scammers, she found the account had been frozen. She then contacted her husband and learned about the truth.

On April 10, a woman surnamed Wang also encountered similar experience. A man who claimed to be a Beijing police officer informed Wang that she might have been involved in a fundraising fraud and demanded her to transfer the money to a “safety account” to prove her innocence.

As police officers failed to contact Wang, they instructed Wang’s husband to call China Mobile 10086 service hotline to suspend Wang’s phone number to prevent the fraudsters from brainwashing Wang. As Wang couldn’t use her mobile phone, she contacted her husband with another person’s mobile and learned she was nearly scammed. (Han Ximin)

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