<div dir="ltr">I've become aware of scam calls targeting seemingly random numbers with chines language voice recordings supposedly saying they are from the <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Chinese Embassy.</span><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">The current flavour of this message is something similar to </span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">"</span></font><span style="font-size:12.8px">This is the Chinese Embassy, you have an important message to be collected. If you have any questions press 0. Our Chinese language department will be able to assist you."</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I've found the following in the media about this, so it seems to be fairly widespread.</span></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.3aw.com.au/chinese-phone-scam-targets-australian-numbers/">https://www.3aw.com.au/chinese-phone-scam-targets-australian-numbers/</a><br></li><li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/chinese-embassy-phone-scam-1.4234983">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/chinese-embassy-phone-scam-1.4234983</a><br></li><li><a href="http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/chinese-phone-scam-vancouver">http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/chinese-phone-scam-vancouver</a><br></li><li><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/10/c_136513524.htm">http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/10/c_136513524.htm</a><br></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I know of people receiving 10000 calls per day, and I've personally been seeing 5000 calls per day apparently for this scam.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The caller ID is probably spoofed, but it appears to be spoofed within the one 1000 block of numbers.  ( that I'm aware of, so far )</span></div><div><br></div><div>I guess id like to know if anyone else is seeing this, and what if anything, do we know about this scam so far?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Sincerely<br><br>Jay</div>
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