Fraud that may be encountered during studying in the United States

As a student in the United States, you are far away from your hometown and parents, and you can't get the exact news of you. You may feel a little helpless. At this time, you may be close to others. Liars can easily find you. There are some fraud cases, I hope you will stay away from them in the future.

Recently, an article published on the website of the Consulate General of China in Chicago pointed out that the students studying in the United States and China were caught in the "US dollar RMB swap" WeChat fraud trap, and called for vigilance. The article points out that in recent years, China students studying in the United States have encountered several "US dollar RMB swap" WeChat fraud traps, resulting in property losses. Fraudsters usually post news about the exchange of US dollars and RMB on the WeChat group of colleges and universities on the grounds that they need to buy air tickets or need to shop urgently when they return to China, and cheat the trust of the victim by "paying first, then paying", and immediately lose contact after receiving the remittance from the victim.

In view of this, the Consulate General of China in Chicago has the following tips:

First, don't trust the exchange information posted by strangers in WeChat circle of friends. Please exchange foreign exchange through the formal channels of the bank. Don't be greedy and cheap, lest you fall into the fraud trap.

Second, don't disclose your name, address, family status, bank account number and other personal information to strangers on WeChat to prevent being used.

3. In case of suspected fraudulent information, please remind others in time.

Fourth, if you are deceived by accident, please report to the local police station immediately, contact my bank, and ask for corresponding measures such as stopping payment and freezing.

If you need consular assistance, please call the Consulate General's 24-hour consular protection and assistance telephone number (3 12-780-0 170).

In case of emergency, you can call the US alarm number (9 1 1).

Global Consular Protection and Service Emergency Call Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (24 hours): +86- 10- 12308 or+86-10-5991.

In addition to the above-mentioned currency exchange fraud, I have summarized different types of fraud, hoping that students and parents who go to the United States will be vigilant.

20 18 inventory of fraud cases in studying abroad:

Love fraud

Criminal organizations will look for targets on some social media sites and dating sites. Liars will use sweet words to "routine" netizens, and then use words like "I want to meet you" to hint, but when they are about to meet, they say that unexpected events can't come.

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.

Tax fraud

According to ABC News, swindlers posing as IRS staff are trying to defraud people of their social security numbers and money by various tricks. According to the data of NCES, more than 654.38+065.438+02 million tax fraud cases were obtained from 654.38+00 prosecutor's offices in several major administrative districts in California and East Coast this year. At present, there is still some time before the deadline for filing tax returns, and the number will continue to rise.

First of all, don't easily believe the gimmick of "tax exemption" by untrustworthy institutions. Some people are charged hundreds of dollars after tax returns. People can check the information of free tax declaration units on the website of the IRS to find out whether the service is true or not.

Secondly, we should be careful about the name of the fake tax bureau and the fact of fraud. People often get calls claiming to represent the IRS, telling the person who answers the phone that tax fraud is under investigation and an arrest warrant will be issued. Now they must pay the fine immediately and pay it with a prepaid debit card, or they will be arrested and deported.

Third, e-mail fraud is rampant now. If there is a similar email telling you that there is no tax refund or no tax refund, don't believe it. The IRS never sends an email to inform about tax refund or tax refund. So far, it is handled by traditional mail, and it is even more impossible to fill out a form on the website, asking for social security number, bank account information and so on.

The IRS also provides five simple ways to detect tax fraud:

1. The IRS never calls you to tell you that you owe taxes without mailing bills. I will not use email, SMS or any social networking platform to discuss your tax information.

The IRS has a strict tax inspection procedure, which gives taxpayers the opportunity to question or appeal the unpaid amount. It is absolutely impossible to ask for money as soon as you call.

The IRS won't ask you to pay taxes by some payment method, such as prepaid debit card.

4. You won't ask for the credit card or debit card number on the phone.

The staff of IRS will never use threatening language such as arrest and confiscation of property to taxpayers.

Using social networking sites for information fraud

Criminals use social networking sites such as facebook and linkedin to send a link with an attachment.

Once the victim clicks on the link, a program will be started, which will automatically scan your phone number and find all kinds of private information. After obtaining this information, criminals will forge emails to ask for a certain amount of fraudulent money.

Fake 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 the phone call is from the government, so they are gullible. After defrauding the trust of international students, the swindler called his family in China and claimed that his children had been kidnapped abroad and asked them to 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 have issued a notice that international students should not be fooled by such calls.

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 and say that you owe money. If you can't pay it back immediately, you will be asked to leave the country.

There are many tricks of a liar, and sometimes they are always unexpected. /kloc-one in 0/00 people will inevitably be cheated, but we still have to remind everyone to be more careful when going out.