From those deceased college students to the renowned university professor, it seems nowadays almost no one in China could assure they won't fall into the traps set up by telecom fraudsters.
Although the public security departments have posted many tips about how to avoid those scams, the cautiousness of people themselves might not be enough.
A warning system targeted at such phone scams has started to provide services to all China Mobile (China's largest telecommunication service supplier) users in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to a press conference held by the Inner Mongolian public security bureau on Wednesday.
Over 400 million fraud-related phone numbers have been labeled by the system, and whenever users receive phone calls from those numbers or call those numbers, warnings will appear on the screens to remind people of the possible trap.
From the mainstream media to the public security authorities, Chinese society has highly prioritized telecom scams since several college students were reported to have lost their tuition fees in such cases, sometimes even resulting in their deaths.
