College entrance exams approaching SMS fraud increase Ministry of Public Security: timely verification to avoid being defrauded

Recently, the number of fraud cases issued by parents of college entrance examination students has been increased. The Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security issued a warning to the community today (3rd) to remind parents of college entrance examination students to receive such text messages. Report the case to the public security organ in a timely manner.

As the college entrance examination is approaching, criminals have their sights on the parents of candidates. From May 20 to 23, more than 100 parents of college entrance examination students in three middle schools in Lu'an City, Anhui Province received fraudulent text messages: "You are the parent of a certain student, I am your child's class teacher Li, your child is in There was a car accident in a certain place and it was already being rescued. I needed the money urgently. Please quickly enter 10,000 yuan into a certain account. "

The person in charge of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that the contents of the text messages were similar, some lied about the sudden illness of the candidates, and some lied about the accident of the candidates, urging the parents of the candidates to transfer the money to the designated account. At present, this phenomenon has caused great concern from the police.

The person in charge reminded the parents of the candidates that this was fraudulent information released by some criminals posing as school teachers or hospital doctors. Candidate parents should contact the student or school in time after receiving such text messages to verify the situation and report the case to the local public security organ.