They are elaborate phone scams targeting vulnerable Chinese international students, who are tricked into manipulating their parents into paying large ransoms to criminal syndicates.
ACT Police said a number of incidents were reported to them in March 2019 and a total of $150,000 was paid to scammers. The AEAAI is a Chinese-Australian community support network and a neighbourhood watch group with volunteers across Australia.Ms Cai told the ABC the ages of the victims ranged from 17 to 50, but it was usually young people with limited social experience who fell victim to the scam.
The scammers would also encourage the victims to continue communications through various encrypted apps such as WeChat and WhatsApp.Second, the scammers accuse the victim of committing a crime and threaten to use their personal information to enforce a legal punishment. Scammers also coerce the victim to take photos and videos of themselves bound and blindfolded which are sent to their family. The victim is then forced to move to an unknown location such as a hotel, but without communication to the outside world.
Ms Cai said she had learned through conversations with victims and their parents there was usually a lack of communication between the two before the incident.Queenie Wu, a Melbourne-based clinical psychologist, echoed Ms Cai's observation.
I don’t get why international students or any foreigners bother coming here at all. The government offers no support, the population hates them, people are even conning them. There are alot of other countries with better education level that are less hostile and more accomodating
Because they're scum?
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