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Student scammed out of 60,000 yuan

A master's student in Nanchang was scammed out of 60,000 yuan ($8,700) after she received a phone call from a swindler saying that she was a suspect in a money-laundering case. The student had previously lost her ID card, so she believed it was likely that the card was misused by identity thieves for money-laundering purposes. She called a phone number the scammer told her was a police hotline. She gave personal details and sent pictures of her naked body to the swindler to prove her identity and that she was not the suspect police were said to be looking for.