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Tsinghua University teacher loses over 10 mln yuan in telecom scam
http://www.ecns.cn/2016/09-01/224725.shtml
Sep 1st 2016, 08:39
Thursday Sep 01, 2016
A photo of a police notification relating to a Tsinghua University teacher who was swindled out of a vast sum of money in a telecom scam has been attracting attention online.
According to the notification, the police station in Beijing's Haidian District received a report that a teacher living at the Lanqiying residential community, had been swindled out of 17.6 million yuan ($2.6 million) by fraudsters who were pretending to be officials from the public security bodies.
The report did not reveal the details of the teacher who had fallen for the scam.
According to a report on the Xinhua news agency, the case has been confirmed by Beijing police and is now under investigation.
The Beijing News spoke to the man in charge of security guards at the Lanqiying residential community, who also confirmed that one of their residents, a teacher at Tsinghua University, was indeed a victim of a telecom scam.
The paper says posters could be seen stuck to the walls of buildings in the community reminding residents of the risk of scams.
Most of the residents of the Lanqiying residential community are teachers from Tsinghua and Beijing Universities, and are generally older people, the report added.
Telecom scams are a growing problem in China. Anyone can find themselves targets of fraudsters, who typical bombard people with phone calls and messages claiming that perhaps they had hit the jackpot, or defaulted on utility fees, or had even been put under police investigation in a criminal case.
The police in China received around 600 thousand reports of telecom scams in 2015 and over 2 billion yuan were lost in scams, many of which involved Taiwan based gangs who have set up hundreds of sites across the world, bombarding people in the mainland.
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