CCTV News: According to the Chinese Embassy in Japan, telecommunications fraud cases targeting overseas students are frequently occurring. Scammers either pretend to be alumni and claim to "change foreign exchange at a low price", or pretend to be a school staff to defraud "tuition and miscellaneous fees", pretend to be a public security, procuratorial and judicial system to induce the parties to pay the so-called "bail", and even coerce international students to write and act as "virtual kidnapping" to deceive their parents into making payments.

As the Spring Festival holiday approaches, the Chinese Embassy in Japan once again reminds Chinese citizens in Japan, especially those in Japan, to pay attention to preventing telecommunications fraud, and to be aware of relatives and friends and relatives and friends to prevent:

First, protect personal information. Neither Chinese nor Japanese government departments will ask for personal information over the phone for any reason. If you receive a strange call, you do not answer actively. If you call to play the recording, you will hang up immediately. We must "not panic when encountering problems", "resolutely not believe", and "not give money", and effectively protect key information such as personal name, address, family situation, and bank accounts.

The second is to be vigilant against telecommunications fraud routines. China's public security, procuratorial and judicial organs will never handle cases through telephone, WeChat, etc., and will never conduct video interrogation through overseas social platforms, nor will they provide a "safe account" to allow the parties to transfer money remotely. Any call for remittance should be deemed a suspicious fraud. You should promptly confirm the authenticity of the information to your family and the police. Do not transfer money easily.

The third is to report the case to the police in a timely manner. If you are unfortunately deceived, please report the case to the local Japanese police and the public security organs of the domestic household registration area as soon as possible (report phone number: 86+area code +110), contact your account opening bank as soon as possible and require corresponding measures such as stop payment and freezing. If you cannot report the case directly to the domestic public security organs, you can report the case in a timely manner through your close relatives in China and ask for help from the anti-telecommunications network fraud center at the place of reporting. You can also call the post-110s and ask them to assist in transferring the anti-fraud center.

Japanese alarm phone number: 110, 03-3501-0110 (Chinese).

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Global Consular Protection and Service Emergency Hotline (24 hours):

+86-10-12308, +86-10-65612308

Tel on Consular Protection of the Embassy in Japan: +81-3-6450-2195

Tel on Consular Protection of the Consular General in Osaka: +81-6-6445-9427

Tel on Consular Protection of the Consular General in Fukuoka: +81-92-753-6483

Consulate protection assistance telephone number for the Consulate General in Sapporo: +81-11-513-5335

Consulate protection assistance telephone number for the Consulate General in Nagosaki: +81-95-849-3311

Consulate protection assistance telephone number for the Consulate General in Nagoya: +81-52-932-1036

Consulate protection assistance telephone number for the Consulate General in Niigata: +81-25-228-8888