Recently, a report was received from the police station in Suwangsu, Northern Lam Province, Thailand. A Chinese man said that his daughter, Moumou Lee, who had studied in Australia, entered Thailand from Australia on May 10, and was picked up by a man driving a pickup truck. They went to Nongkai Prefecture together. After being taken to the border, they could no longer contact each other.
Coincidentally, the Chinese Association of Students at the University of Sydney recently released a notice of looking for someone, saying that Xu, an international student studying for a master's degree in project management at the University of Sydney, had lost contact since April 30. On May 2 local time, Xu was found by the police in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Thai police said that Xu was lured to Thailand and extorted nearly 1.4 million yuan.
▲ Chinese student Li Having lived in Myanmar for nearly 10 years, an insider who is currently doing business in Myanmar told Red Star News that Chinese students studying abroad have become the new target of fraud.
Recently, the Thai police found a "secret channel" for smuggling in a fruit market during their pursuit of the telecom fraud gang. The secret door there has become a channel for the telecom fraud gang and the smugglers to enter and leave Thailand.
Case sorting:
Studying Abroad Becomes a "New Target" of Fraud Gang
The reporter found that the first case of fraud against foreign students that attracted domestic attention occurred on December 31 last year.
It is reported that Zhuang Mou, a 17-year-old Chinese student from Utah, was reported missing on December 28 last year, after his parents in China received his photo and demanded ransom. On December 31, the police found him in a tent near Brigham City, Utah, and learned that he was isolated from the world according to the requirements of "online kidnappers".
Similar cases and different means happened to an Australian student named Xu in March this year.
According to the 5th District Police Station in northern Thailand, on March 30, Xu, an international student studying for a master's degree in project management at the University of Sydney, received a fraud call. The fraud gang pretended to be the Chinese police, falsely claiming that someone opened a bank account with her ID card and transferred the money she had cheated. If Xu did not follow the instructions, his Australian visa would be revoked.
Later, Xu said to his parents that he wanted to buy a house in Sydney, and he had taken a fancy to an apartment. The next day, his father remitted Xu a sum of money to buy a house. Then parents checked Xu's account and found that the money was not used to buy a house, but was transferred to a domestic account several times. After noticing the abnormality, parents asked Xu on April 28, and found that her answer was full of holes, "I felt someone was teaching her how to speak". Later, Xu lost contact, and his parents reported to the police in China and Australia respectively.
According to the police investigation, Xu arrived in Bangkok on the evening of April 30 and was asked by the fraud gang to travel from Chiang Mai to neighboring countries as soon as possible. On the evening of May 2, the police found Xu in a hotel room in Changmei District, Chiang Mai City, who was talking to members of the fraud gang, and immediately took action to rescue him. On May 3, Xu was reunited with his family in Chiang Mai and returned home safely in the early morning of the next day. It is reported that Xu was extorted nearly 1.4 million yuan by a fraud gang.
In addition, the reporter also noticed that in late April this year, An, a 22-year-old Chinese female student from Australian National University, was lured to Thailand and defrauded of nearly 1.5 million yuan. The fraud gang lied that the illegal information sent by An's mobile phone number caused someone to commit suicide, and if she did not pay 8 million yuan, she would face terrible consequences.
An was asked by the fraudster to remit money to the designated account for many times, and the last transfer of 500000 yuan was not approved by the bank due to the excessive amount. Then, the fraudsters said that they could help her stay out of the case and avoid being punished by the law through local contacts in Thailand, thus luring her to Thailand. Fortunately, Mr. An was finally found by the police, and his life was not in danger.
Secret channel:
Smugglers enter and leave Thailand through the "secret door"
Recently, the Thai police found a "secret channel" for smuggling in the fruit market behind Longo, the border of Shakyu, in the process of pursuing the smuggling of telecom fraud gangs. The secret door there has become a channel for telecom fraud gangs and smugglers to enter and leave Thailand.
▲ "Secret Gate" in Longo Fruit Market At the case briefing held on April 29, the Thai police announced that they had arrested a telecommunications fraud gang that had smuggled from the "secret door" of the border, including retired police officer Anka (70 years old) and Cambodian men Dana (35 years old) and Naisong (31 years old). Three people were accused of leading and assisting foreigners to smuggle into Thailand. It is reported that they were all arrested in Longo Fruit Market.
The Thai police revealed that when the Central Bureau of Investigation investigated the bank accounts opened by criminal gangs, it found that the local people in Shajiafu were used by criminal groups to smuggle from the "secret door" of Longo Fruit Market to Cambodia, and then to open an account in a bank. When the victims transferred money into their accounts, these "puppet householders" would withdraw the stolen money and then transfer it to the criminals.
In the past six months, an average of 60 to 70 people leave Thailand every day from the "secret door" of the Longo fruit market. A Cambodian man named "Big Eye" used the "secret door" to collect the stowaway fee, 3000 baht per person each time. The police said that this smuggling route was the route for cross-border telecom fraud gangs to "enter and leave" Thailand.
Red Star News reported last August that with the popularization of anti fraud propaganda in China, the anti fraud awareness of domestic people has been greatly improved. At the same time, there have been new changes in electronic fraud.
Having lived in Myanmar for nearly 10 years, an insider who is currently doing business in Myanmar told reporters that Chinese students studying abroad have become the new target of fraud
The insider also mentioned that, in view of the changes in the target group of fraud, the personnel engaged in telecommunications fraud have also changed - "In the past, our impression of telephone fraud personnel may be that we listened to the other person speak non-standard Mandarin on the phone, but now they will find people who are very fluent in foreign languages and have a high level of cultural knowledge to engage in electronic fraud." The insider said, "Do you think it would be more deceptive for an overseas student to receive a phone call when he speaks fluent English and standard Mandarin?"
Red Star Journalist Shen Xingyi
Editor He Xianfeng, Editor in Charge Li
