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Article: Beijing police warn of hi-tech con men
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- May 29, 2007
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Beijing police yesterday released details of a number of scams
that they said were being widely used to con people throughout the
city.
Guo Zhenlin, an officer with the criminal investigation team of
the Beijing municipal public security bureau, said: "The perpetrators
are the same old faces, but now they have new tricks."
With the growth in popularity of the Internet and mobile phones,
grifters have concentrated on new technologies while developing their
scams, Guo said.
He said this year had seen a steep increase in fraud cases
involving the Net and mobile-phone text messages, and a fall in