Recently, new tricks have been seen in telecommunications fraud cases in the United States. Criminals have been constantly fabricating new reasons such as "the parties involved are suspected of fraudulent donations related to Russia-Ukrainian conflicts", "selling charter flight tickets back to China" to defraud money, and many victims have been deceived. Its payment methods have also expanded from traditional bank transfers to cryptocurrency trading, which has made it more difficult for the police to solve the case and recover the stolen money. However, from the perspective of fraudulent methods, criminals still use common tricks, mostly using technical means to simulate random calls from telephone numbers. After encountering Chinese speakers "take the bait", they pretend to be embassy and consulate, domestic public security, procuratorial and judicial services, etc., directly defraud money from the victims, or brainwash the victims, so that they can isolate themselves from the outside, create the illusion of "killing", and then cheat money from their relatives and friends.
In view of this, the Chinese Embassy in the United States once again reminds Chinese citizens in the United States: be vigilant, prevent all kinds of fraud, and do not trust remittance and transfer.
If you accidentally encounter fraud, you can refer to the following channels to report the case in time:
(I) Report the case to the police in the United States or school, and call 911 or the local police station.
(II) If the stolen money involved in the case is withdrawn through bank card transfer in mainland China, the victim can directly call the public security organ of the bank or the place of household registration to report the case to the US police after reporting the case to the police 110 of the public security organ where the bank is located or where the household registration is located to introduce the case and provide the bank account involved. Alternatively, after transferring the alarm number of the local anti-fraud center through the 110 alarm phone number, provide the bank account involved.
(III) In order to evade law enforcement in mainland China, criminals often instruct victims to remit money to financial institutions in the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions. After the victim reports the case to the US police, he can report the case to the relevant departments of the SAR government at the same time:
Hong Kong SAR Government Anti-Fraud Coordination Center Contact information: https://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_tc/04_crime_matters/adcc/
Contact information for the Macao SAR Government Public Security Police Department: http://www.fsm.gov.mo/psp/cht/psp_left_4.html
(IV) After encountering fraud in the US, in addition to calling the police, the victim can also report the case in the following ways and seek assistance:
For most frauds, you can contact the Federal Trade Commission or use its Online Complaint Assistant reports;
for fraud that impersonates taxes by the US ITA, you can report to Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration or call 1-800-366-4484;
for stolen identity information, you can report to IdentityTheft.gov;
for fraud using Internet means, you can report to FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center;
for cross-border e-commerce fraud, you can report to econsumer.gov. For other commercial fraud activities, you can report to Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration report;
for frauds that violate immigration laws and other aspects can be reported to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement;
for investment frauds, can report to Securities and Exchange Commission or the securities regulatory department of the state where they are located;
for frauds, can report to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for frauds, such as credit and loans, remittances, etc.;
for frauds using phones, can report to Federal Communications Commission.
For details, please visit the Stopfraud.gov website to check which department should report the situation to.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ global consular protection and service emergency hotline (24 hours): +86-10-12308 or +86-10-59913991
Consular protection and assistance telephone number for Chinese embassies and consulates in the United States:
Embassy in the United States: +1-202-4952216
Consulate General in New York: +1-212-69531 25
Consulate General in San Francisco: +1-415-9296998
Consulate General in Los Angeles: +1-213-8078052
Consulate General in Chicago: +1-312-7800170
(Website of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America)
