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Never send money or provide personal/banking information to the caller.Making threats to life and requesting you transfer all your funds for verification immediately. Unsolicited caller claiming to be from a government agency requesting payment and threatening you if you don’t pay.Īn email containing threatening language with a link requested immediate payment.Ī voicemail threatening arrest unless you call back immediately. They may even threaten you with extradition, cancellation of visas or criminal charges.

Similarly other culturally diverse ethnicities may also be targeted. The caller pretends to be a Chinese government or law enforcement representative, and may state that your identity has been used in a crime such as money laundering, creating fraudulent documents or even murder, and demand that you transfer money to the Chinese authorities for verification.

NAB is aware of an increase in threat and extortion scams recently targeting the Chinese community and people from other culturally diverse ethnicities.

Microsoft account hacked phone number changed