Recently, the Mid-Autumn Festival is supposed to be a warm time for family reunion and enjoying the bright moon together, but some scammers seize the opportunity that overseas Chinese remit and exchange money during the Mid-Autumn Festival to victimize them.

 

Recently, there have been a number of fraud cases.

 

Let Panda Remit take you to dig out these new tricks to avoid secondary damage.

 

Asia:

 

New trick: two cheats in one case!

 

This year, in Singapore, Mark and Rui became the twin victims of a single scam case.

 

Crooks were looking for two people to exchange foreign exchange, and asked Rui for Singapore dollars, and Mark for RMB, and told them that a “friend” will finish their transactions face to face.

 

However, Mark and Rui offline met to chat a few words only to find that neither of them can recognize this scammer, the so-called “friend” had not appeared at all.

 

Only then did the two realize that they had been cheated, and before the meeting, Mark had already given the scammer three payments totaling about 116 000 yuan. Afterwards, the two reported the case to the local police.

 

We’d better Keep our eyes open and detect this kind of scam.

 

 

Oceania:

 

Trusting a stranger easily is the same as victimizing yourself

 

W is an international student in Australia, close to the deadline for the payment of tuition fees, in urgent need to exchange RMB for more than 20 000 Australian dollars. She joined a Weixin group of international students, and met a netizen named “Xiabu Xiabu”.. Because they were both international students, W did not do more vigilance, transferred 50 000 yuan to his account. Soon, the transfer screenshot of Australian dollars was sent.

 

 

W thought it was very smooth and trustworthy, then transferred another 70 000 yuan. After a while, the money did not arrive, the next day, still not. When W sent a message to the scammer via Weixin, only found her got defriended.

 

When close to the trap, we may get lucky enough to escape the first time, but will fall for it sooner or later at the end.

 

 

Europe:

 

Good intentions to help run errands, but ended up in jail

 

A was in the United Kingdom, a university graduate student, last September or so, she joined a private exchange Weixin group.

 

 

Suddenly, one day, a classmate of A hopes that A can help a small favor: he hopes that A can receive pounds in cash, then use her own British bank account to send the money to a few other people's pounds accounts.

 

A thought it was not a big deal, so agreed. Every time “help”, A's classmates will invite her to dinner. But she didn't realize that she was already in deep trouble until the last time she “helped”... As a result, when A went to get the cash, the police handcuffed her and the connector without saying a word! After two nights of interrogation, A was charged and jailed for money laundering.

 

Without the capability of recognizing right from wrong, you may make yourself an accomplice.

 

Money not exchanged, nearly got killed

 

Recently, Italy, a Wenzhou female compatriots introduced through relatives and people to privately exchange foreign exchange, thought it was introduced by acquaintances, it will be safely insured. So she went to the agreed city square and sit into a car.

 

Unexpectedly, not yet started trading, but was kidnapped by the other side. In the face of vicious criminals, she could only be forced to transfer more than 700 000 yuan to the other side to save her life.

 

Luckily she saved her own life, but the big amount of money is gone forever.

 

 

North America:

 

Screenshots are fake, fraud is real

 

Chinese in the United States Mr. Cai needs to use the dollar for RMB, and in Weixin added a person who claimed to be able to exchange foreign exchange, the other side said that Mr. Cai needs to transfer U.S. dollar, they he can get RMB back.

 

After Mr. Cai transferred dollars, the other party sent Mr. Cai an Alipay transfer screenshot, however, Mr. Cai's Alipay account has not received money. Afterwards, Mr. Cai intends to ask the other side, only to find that the other side has defriended him.

 

You can't trust the transfer screenshot, only the account balance will not cheat!

 

Change money? It's a money grab!

 

Ms. Zhou, who lives in Georgia, is an old immigrant who has to send some RMB to her parents in China from time to time, and usually looks for friends to exchange some money.

 

But recently her parents encountered an emergency, the friend could not get so many yuan, in a hurry, she felt it imperative to get some RMB so she tried to find some help in Weixin Moments. The two sides agreed on the time and place of the transaction, Ms. Zhou in the agreed location waiting for the other party to bring money over. In order to show sincerity, Ms. Zhou also first sent money into the other account.

 

The other side at first excused that they did not receive the money, and then handed the money to Ms. Zhou. When Ms. Zhou slightly let down a bit of caution, the other actually snatched the money in Ms. Zhou's hands and wanted to run.

 

Your friends in Weixin Moments might not be true friends, maybe scammers.

 

The risk of private exchange of foreign exchange, property losses are difficult to recover.

 

 

Many countries around the world are constantly increasing the fight against financial crimes, including money laundering, private exchange of foreign exchange may be suspected of “money laundering”, resulting in the bank account was blocked.

 

 Overseas Chinese citizens should be sure to exchange money through regular legal channels, too much trouble do not want to go to the bank to exchange money, you can choose to online remittance, you may want to consider Panda Remit! The latest Internet remittance method, the fastest 2 minutes to the account, without going out or queuing up.