The embassy and consulate in the United States reminds Chinese citizens to beware of the implementation of telecommunications fraud in the name of fake embassies of criminals

Recently, the number of criminals faked in the name of the Chinese embassy and consulate in the United States to implement telecommunications fraud incidents frequently. The common means are based on personal information leakage, suspected illegal crimes, and jumping domestic police calls, etc., to seduce parties to provide personal conditions or operate bank transfer. As a result, many Chinese citizens and international students suffered economic losses.

The Chinese embassy in the United States solemnly reminds Chinese citizens in the United States:

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Consular protection and assistance telephones in the US Embassy are usually used to answer urgent calls for Chinese citizens. Under normal circumstances, the so -called transfer service will not be performed.

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The embassy in the United States is not a law enforcement agency. It will not notify Chinese citizens to handle any cases, will not ask for any personal information, nor will they ask for money or ask for bank transfer operations.

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Please do not disclose your name, date of birth, passport number, bank card number, family address and other personal information to strangers on the phone. If you receive a suspected fraud call, please hang up or verify multiple channels immediately; if you mention money transactions, do not transfer directly.

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If you accidentally encounter fraud, you can refer to the following channels to report the case in a timely manner:

(1) Report to the place of residence or school in the United States and call the 911 or the local police station.

(2) For the stolen money involved in the case, the victim can directly dial the case of the bank or the public security organs where the bank is located or the household registration, and provide the bank account involved in the public security organs where the household registration is located. Alternatively, after the 110 alarm telephone transfer and query the alarm call of the local anti -fraud center, the bank account involved in the case.

(3) In order to avoid law enforcement in China, criminals often instructed the victims to remit money to financial institutions in Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Region. After the victim reported to the US police, he could report to the relevant departments of the SAR government at the same time:

For contact information of the Anti -fraud Coordination Center of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, please see:

https://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_tc/04_crime_matters/adcc/

For the contact information of the Public Security Police Department of the Macau SAR Government

(4) After the United States encounters fraud, in addition to the alarm, the victim can also report the case with reference to the following methods and seek assistance:

For most scams, contact with Federal Trade Commission or use its online complaint assistant to report;

For fraud who are impersonated by the National Taxation Bureau of Taxation, you can report to Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration or call 1-800-366-4484;

For the stolen status information, you can report to the IDentityTheft.gov;

For fraud using the Internet, you can report to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center;

For cross -border e -commerce fraud, the case should be reported to EConsumer.gov. For other commercial fraud activities, you can report to the DEPARTMENT of Commerce's International Trade Administry;

For frauds in violation of immigration laws, you can report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement;

For investment fraud, you can report to the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Securities Regulator department where the state is located;

For fraud on credit and loans, remittances, etc., you can report to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau;

Regarding the use of telephones for fraud, you can report to Federal Communications Commission.

Specific access to the Stopfraud.gov website, inquire about which department should reflect the situation about banks, credit cards, houses and other financial fraud.

contact number

Global Consular Protection and Service Emergency Hotline (24 hours):

+86-10-12308

+86-10-59913991

Telephone for the protection and assistance of the Chinese embassy consulate in the United States:

Embassy in the United States:

+1-202-4952216

Consulate General in New York:

+1-212-6953125

Consulate General in San Francisco:

+1-415-9296998

Consulate General in Los Angeles:

+1-213-8078052

Consulate General in Chicago:

+1-312-7800170

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