As the Chinese New Year approaches, the Queensland Police Service are reminding the community to stay vigilant to scammers by providing advice in Mandarin on a current scam that has impacted at least 44 victims in Queensland, all of whom were Chinese international students.
Detective Superintendent Terry Lawrence said during 2019, Queensland victims reported losing between $100 to $128,000 after receiving unsolicited phone calls or online chat messages allegedly from the Chinese Consulate.
“This is a scam; our advice to anyone receiving such calls is to hang up and to report it to police,” Detective Superintendent Terry Lawrence said.
“These forms of social engineering attacks, seen here, across Australia and the world, see criminals pretend to be from a legitimate organisation or government authority to get access to money or personal information.”
A new video, featuring the Financial and Cyber Crime Group’s Detective Senior Constable Shawn Chia explains this so-called Chinese Consulate scam, where
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