There were totally 10 telecom network fraud cases in Zhejiang University during December 1st -17th, 2019 and among them, 5 were in Zijingang campus, 3 were in Yuquan campus, 1 was in Xixi campus and 1 was in International campus, which were cheated with a large amount of money.

According to the case analysis, fraud types including posing as relatives and friends, part-time recruitment of online shop brush single, posing as state organs staff, online dating, trading game account, T-mall customer service and so on. Most of the victims were students.

As the end of 2019 approaches, fraudsters always tend to have the mindset of "cashing in and going home for the Chinese New Year"! We remind all the students, faculty and staff, do please protect your personal information and verify calls and text messages involving property carefully, and also be more guarded in strangers with a psychological suggestion, so that don't give criminals any chance to cheat you .

Office of Campus Development and Management

December 21, 2019

Appendix: Common Offence Means in Telecom Network Fraud Cases with High Incidence in Campus

I: Fraud by Posing as Relatives and Friends

After using Trojan-horse programs to steal one's account password of network communication tool and intercepting the chatting data, criminals pose as the owner of this account and defraud his/her relatives or friends with the reason of emergencies including a forged transfer screenshot, serious illness, a car accident, etc.

II: Fraud by Part-Time Recruitment of Online Shop Brush Single

By group text messaging, criminals entice victims into online shop brush single as a part-time job with commissions. Once they believe that it is true, criminals will further conduct fraud by charging principle and refuse to give back the principle and commissions with a false or impossible quantity requirement of finished orders.

III: Fraud by Posing as State Organs Staff

By posing as a staff of the Police, the Procuratorate or the Court, criminals dial the victims' phone and tell them their stolen identity information, suspicion being involved in crimes such as fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking and so on, and defraud them to transfer money into a forged national account for cooperation with the investigation.

IV: Fraud by Online Dating

By searching for potential victims via marriage and dating websites, social software and others, criminals cultivate feelings with them and win their trust through chatting, and then introduce them into gambling, financial fraud platforms. 

V: Fraud by Online Shopping

With stolen information of victims by certain means, criminals make phone calls or send text messages as the customer service staff of Taobao and other shopping websites, falsely claiming that the goods bought by the victims are out of stock, bad quality, lost in package delivery, etc., and tell the victims they will provide a refund. Therefore, criminals require them to add friends and conduct fraud by inducing them to transfer after loan. Criminals would also conduct fraud by luring victims to click the fake links sent by them with the reason of after-sales service, shopping refund, or change of wrong registration information.

VI: Fraud by Trading Game Account

Criminals conduct fraud by posting fake websites with payment links on selling online game equipment, QQ number, game levelling, etc., luring victims who want to get better equipment, more gold coins to satisfy their own vanity.