deputy director: The Ministry of Public Security MPS is now calling the public to be vigilant against such scams, according to Global Times China. Scammers mainly take advantage of the mentality that you can make a large profit from just a small investment. Photo IC With China stepping up its efforts to fight poverty in recent years, a series of scams, using targeted poverty reduction measures as bait, has turned hundreds of thousands of people into victims. Some use fake official documents and seals and pretend to be government officials to make the scams look more real, Chen Shiqu, deputy director of the criminal investigation bureau under the MPS, said at a press conference in January. Starting last August, the group set up dozens of WeChat groups and deceived 180,000 people in four months, asking them to pay membership fees ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 yuan and claiming that they would make tenfold that sum after the organization held a meeting in Beijing that would unlock the poverty alleviation funds. In one case, four scammers from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region used fake cyber identities to pose as government officials from the State Council, the Ministry of Finance and as the director of China's poverty alleviation group to claim that the central government had launched a targeted one-on-one poverty reduction campaign through the internet.
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