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Victim falls for telephone scam

A woman in Guangzhou sought police help on March 26 after falling victim to a telephone scam and being defrauded of 67,000 yuan ($9,730). The woman, surnamed Wu, said she had received a call claiming to be from the Supreme People's Procuratorate. The person on the other end of the line told Wu she was suspected of money laundering and instructed her to transfer a sum of money into a "safety account". Wu became suspicious when she transferred money on two separate occasions, only for the "procurator" to ask her for more. Police have launched a probe.