Scammers impersonate the Chinese Consulate

I had a very similar phone call from 213-807-8088 saying the last notice for me to pick up an important document, when asked what the document is, I was told that my entrance to China will be blocked after 9/20/208. I then asked the person to check what the reason is, I am told that someone by the name of Wang, Ming-Fong who entered in China from Shanghai was found having 5 faked passport in her passion, and one of them is mine. When then the person passed the phone to his boss who said that he had no authority to remove my entrance restriction, which would need to report to Shanghai Public Security Office, and he is nice to connect me to: 86 262906290 the Changning Branch where the police officer talked with me with recording on, with the intention of writing an office case report to the headquarter for investigation and clearing the case. His name given to me as Officer# 02780, name: Chen, Lo-then. I provided him with my driver’s license number and full name both in English name and Chinese name, since I was traveling, I do not have my passport with me and I have only visited China twice in recent 16 years and never had a Chinese passoport. After a very lengthy and friendly conversation with questions regarding my family, surrounding details, which he did not ask for my home address nor names. Etc. After I answered all his questions. He paused the phone to report to his headquarters and called me back asking me why they found a bank acccount under my name (my driver’s license number) with a large amount of $$$ in a bank which I have never heard of, sounds like China Construction Bank?? And the account has been involved in a huge international money laundries criminal investigation. My name was also found in a criminal. XXLi who is the chief leader of this huge laundry money crimes. And many Chinese people have been victim of this crime. He keeps on wanting to tell me the seriousness of my case... This took over 2 hours time on my cell phone. About that time, I had to go out-with the family whom I am visiting, so I told him I have to stop. He argued saying this is most serious criminal case I need to stay with him on the phone, if I do not take him serious then he can not help me with the case, the national court will take action. Later, I found out this is a big scam which has been going on and widely publicized in Chinese newspapers which I do not read and totally unaware of such scam. I was very worried about giving out my driver’s licens number and my name. Later, found out may others have such bad experience as well. I found a website Identify theft resource center most helpful. They have a live advisor could talk with and gave me instructions what actions to take to protect myself. I tried to call the Los Angelse Chinese Consulate office (their phone number on their website) and could not go though at all. I don’t know what is going on with their office. Unfortunately. such incident certainly gave me a very very bad taste of China

I got almost the same scam. I made the same mistake, gave them my driver license number and my birthday so they can verify me. I should verify them. When they started mention that I am a suspect of a serious international financial crime. I got shock and decided that I should talk to my lawyer and told them that I'll have my lawyer handle the case. They stopped then I realized that I got scammed.

Here is what happened to me lately. On the 9th of July, I got a call from so called 'Chinese Consolate' in NYC with the number 212-244-6317; the lady's name is Shang, Liping, who connected me to the detectives in the Police Department of Beijing Eastern District. From Beijing PD (phone number: 8408 1114). I was told that a lady named Xu, Feng entered China with 5 passports and one of them was mine. She is a criminal conducting money laundry and lots of more illegal activities. I was told she used my identity to place over 2.6 million Chinese yuan to my account. I told them that how many accounts that I have and roughly how much money in them and there is no such thing like deposit of approximately $400 to $500 thousand to any of my account. And the sum-up of all my accounts will not reach that amount. They wanted me to go back to China helping them make investigation on the crimes. I told them I can help them provide information that they need but not ready to go back and stay there for at least 6 months (in jail). I called the Chinese Consulate in NYC the next day. I was told the 212 number and the person’s name are all faked, and the call was a scam call for sure. My mistakes were giving them the number of my driver’s license and telling them how many bank accts I have (but not account numbers). Like FBL, I’m trying to warn decent people in the US beware of the criminals that talked to me and be on alert all the time. As a Chinese by origin, I’m really ashamed that a group of my countrymen are trying to do devastating damage to the lovely country and the people in the country. I pray that they are definitely to be caught in no time.

The IRS will NOT call you, ever. This is an old scam.

I received this call today at 11:25AM today April 25th. I work less than a block from the Chinese Consulate in Houston.

I had similar story as well. Said Shanghai police caught someone who has my name on that carry a lot cash . When I refused. She start thereaten me and than I hanged up.

I received a similar scam call today with a similar story, but it is not about credit cards, it was my passport. They also transferred me to Shanghai Police department (the local time is 1:30am in Shanghai I figured). Their accent is from southeast Asia, so I started to question their accent and told them I believe this is fraud. I then hang up.

As soon as the call comes through, answer and hang up immediately. Don't even let a full second pass. This will make it look like you have a non-working number. The calls will start decreasing soon.

same number today. scammer