Guangdong cops bust cold callers

GUANGZHOU: A 10-month police crackdown on bogus callers and rogue traders across Guangdong province means little to a resident of the provincial capital who was tricked into handing over her life savings to scammers last month.

The resident of Guangzhou's Yuexiu district received a call from a man claiming to be from a telephone company, saying she had run up a massive phone bill.

When she said she had never made the calls, she was told her identity might have been stolen before the phone call was transferred to a "police hotline".