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Article: Beijing police launch campaign against phone call fraud
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 7, 2008
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Beijing police launch campaign against phone call fraud
BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Beijing police on Sunday launched a
50-day crackdown on a fraudulent scheme that has led to people
handing over bank deposits to swindlers who claim to be police or
telecoms employees.
Police in the Xuanwu District of Beijing alone received 26
reports of such scams, involving 1.5 million yuan (219,000 U.S.
dollars), since the latter half of October, said Zhang Yue, an
officer in the district.
One fraud target lost 400,000 yuan, Zhang added.
A typical scam starts when someone gets a call in which they are