Illustration by CFP ALMOST everyone in China has received calls from phone scamsters. They know your name Cheap Greg Pateryn Jersey , your school, your company, often your ID number and sometimes even your browser history.
The callers have different spiels: investment projects, real estate sales, insurance promotion. But mostly what they are peddling is fraud.
It’s disconcerting to receive calls from strangers who seem to know so much about you. Questions bubble up: How do they know who I am? How do they know my number? How do they know I’m looking for a new apartment?
The best thing to do, of course Cheap Antoine Roussel Jersey , is just hang up. Those who don’t often pay a heavy price.
On Monday, a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing was reported to have lost 17.6 million yuan (US$2.67 million) to a phone scammer posing as a judicial officer. No further details were made public.
Only two days earlier, Xu Yuyu and Song Zhenning, two college students
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The online chatting app QQ is consid-ered a rife platform for fraud. Searching chat groups with the keyword “client information,” one can access personal data at a very low price.
One group calling itself Client Infor-mation Trade opened in the Shanghai Huili Business Center. In its introduc-tion, the group advertised that it could provide more than 30 Cheap Brian Flynn Jersey ,000 pieces of information on small business owners in Anhui and Henan provinces. “If you want to look for franchisers, please add the group,” it advised.
Another group calling itself Client Information Resources said, “Please contact the group owner to trade client information. We have resources from all over the country and the information is updated on a monthly basis.”