The anti-scam efforts also extend abroad, with a handbook aimed at helping overseas Chinese students and communities identify and prevent fraud.
Two men surf mobile phones while sitting outside a restaurant at a mall in Beijing on Aug 15, 2023. SINGAPORE: China has launched a month-long nationwide campaign to combat telecommunications and online fraud as it keeps up a crackdown on such scams which have led to tens of billions of dollars in financial losses.
Officials will also publish common types of telecom fraud and their methods. Meanwhile, targeted programmes will be conducted for high-risk groups such as minors, the elderly, enterprises and people working in finance. The anti-scam efforts also extend abroad. During the month-long campaign, a “handbook” by multiple government agencies will be published, aimed at helping overseas Chinese students and communities identify and prevent fraud.As of May this year, China has cracked down on 543,000 telecom and network fraud cases and arrested a “large number” of suspects involved, said the Ministry of Public Security on its website on Monday.
More than 100,000 foreign nationals, many of them Chinese, were estimated to have been lured to work in scam centres there, according to a BBC News report late last year.
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