Be wary of common fraudulent means of studying abroad.

Before going abroad, international students' understanding of overseas society is mostly based on fragmentary and second-hand information. Many times, they don't have a correct judgment about their environment. Today, let's take a look at the common means of studying abroad fraud.

1. Use social networking sites for information fraud.

Criminals use social networking sites to send links with attachments. Once the victim clicks on the link in the company, it will start a program, which will automatically scan your company phone number to find out who is the president, personal schedule reservation record, when to take a vacation and so on.

After receiving this information, the criminal sent a telegram to the company's financial personnel, saying that he owed a sum of money to a company, and please pay someone $654.38+00,000 yuan. So be careful about the information posted on social media, because organized criminals all over the world are looking for it.

2. Love fraud

Criminal organizations will look for targets on some social media sites and dating sites.

Liars will cajole many people with sweet words. Netizens will say "I want to see you" and other language hints when they are "routine", but they will say what they can't come when they are about to meet.

The reason is often sudden illness, or being entangled in justice and so on. The liar will say, "Can you lend me money? Help me? " After transferring the money to the other party, it is convenient to pull you black.

3. Immigration fraud

Such cases are spread all over the world, and the targets are often Britain, Canada, the United States and other western countries. Liars usually pretend to be government agencies, saying that you owe money and can't be deported immediately. Victims are often new immigrants who don't know much about relevant laws and regulations and think they really owe money. Liars usually ask for remittance through Western Union.

4. Tax fraud

Similar to immigration fraud, organized criminals will target new immigrants because new immigrants often don't understand that Canadian police and government officials never ask residents for cash.

The swindler called, claiming to be from the Inland Revenue Department (cra), and told the new immigrants that they owed the relevant taxes and fees and would not be arrested. Old immigrants know this is fraud.

5. False kidnapping

Some foreign students have received calls. The other party claimed to be from the Canadian government or the United States and asked them not to contact anyone because of an incident or for security reasons. International students are new here and don't know much about relevant laws and regulations. They think it's the government, so they are gullible.

After defrauding the trust of international students, the swindlers called their families in China, claiming that their children had been kidnapped in Canada and demanding that they pay a large ransom.

Because these international students didn't answer the phone, their families couldn't contact them, so they believed it and remitted the money to the liar's account.

Therefore, Chinese embassies and consulates abroad have issued a notice that international students should not be fooled by such calls.