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My aunt works as a book keeper for a small Canadian company, and they have a Chinese foreign student working there. About a month ago he got snared by one of those spearphishing scams. Someone texted him pretending to be the owner, got him to buy a bunch of gift cards and email the codes on the back. The scam only stopped because my aunt asked him where he was off to as he was on his way out to buy a *second* round of gift cards.

Personally, I've been getting robocalls in Chinese for over a year now. Sometimes multiple calls a day, they're annoying as hell because they leave a voicemail every time. I'm not sure what the scam is for those but I suspect it's related to work or student visas, with the scammer posing as a Canadian government official so they can scare the target into paying.

It seems pretty clear to me that Chinese nationals abroad have been identified as a lucrative target for these sorts of scams. Not sure why that is, but I'd guess it has to do with access to funds plus a cultural tendency toward deference to authority maybe?
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