Chinese people around the world are being targeted by an elaborate scam in which criminals pretend to be Chinese police. A British-Chinese woman has told the BBC that she handed over her life savings to con men who wore uniforms in video calls and gave her a virtual tour of what appeared to be a police station.
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Helen Young still has nightmares about the fortnight that she was made to believe she was on China’s most wanted list.
Scammers posing as Chinese police manipulated the London-based accountant into believing she was under investigation for a massive fraud back in her homeland.
Helen was presented with a mountain of fabricated evidence which appeared to implicate her in a crime she knew nothing about.
When the fake police then threatened her with extradition to a jail cell in China, Helen sent them her £29,000 life savings as “bail money”, in a desperate attempt to stay in Britain.
“I feel a bit stupid right now,” she says. “But there's no chance I can know that's not real. It's so convincing”.
Helen’s story may sound extraordinary but there have been numerous similar cases in the Chinese diaspora.
China’s embassies around the world have issued public warnings about police impersonation scams, as has the FBI after a number of cases in the US. One elderly woman in Los Angeles reportedly handed over $3m, believing it would stop her extradition.