According to reports from the People’s Daily Beijing channel, the Shijingshan Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau has disclosed a new type of cross-border telecommunications fraud case. Police said that a Chinese citizen who was studying abroad in accompaniment to their child was targeted by scammers posing as public security and judicial authorities. After receiving money remitted by family members back home, the victim was lured into transferring the funds in batches into the accounts of two Chinese students studying abroad. The two students were also victims of the fraud. One of them was instructed by the fraudsters to use a third-party payment platform to convert the received more than 800,000 yuan into “U coins” and transfer them onward. Police said the case features the characteristics of “multiple scams in one case” and “victims serving as money-laundering tools for one another.” Ultimately, the police froze 780,000 yuan involved in the case and returned the money to the victims.