Cutting off criminal channels

Deng Xiaobing had been waiting for days for his new cell phone to arrive in the mail. According to the television show he called to order it, the phone was a high-tech model and a dead cert to impress his friends.

What arrived in the mail was far from what was promised.

"The phone is total rubbish," said the 24-year-old printer from Beijing. "I paid 499 yuan, a quarter of my monthly salary, but it is not what the hosts of the show said it was at all."