To disclose the tricks of the outlaws and enhance local residents’ capability to protect themselves from swindlers, Yangpu police has carried out the activity of “Intensive Propaganda Day” to teach people how to guard against communication swindlers in the district. At the activity site, the police published seven tricks the swindlers usually play, including “underpaid bills, consumption with bank card, winning a prize, pretending to be acquaintance, refundment & tax refund, selling prohibited goods, faking an accident”.
Swindlers have been closely following hot topics of society and even upgraded software technology and scenario design. Besides the regular approach of using software “random incoming call indicator”, swindlers would identify themselves as staff from “procuratorates”, “courts”, “public security bureaus”, “social guarantee bureaus”, “telecommunication companies” and “post offices”. Some even use alarms of police cars and radio calls as background music to cheat people and make them transfer money into their designed bank accounts.
Yangpu police alerts citizens to stay cautious whenever receiving strange calls that involve money, bank account, credit card or passwords. Moreover, the public security bureaus, procuratorates and courts have strict rules and procedures for case handling and won’t request money to be transferred to their accounts. People need to hear advices from bank staff rather than simply transfer directly with e-banking services or through ATM. People should call the police for help when requested by a stranger to transfer money.