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In Depth: Digital Scammers Find Analog Opportunity Exploiting Delivery Rules

By Zou Xiaotong and Wang Xintong
2025年08月15日 20:08
Fraudsters have substituted increasingly traceable electronic payments with physical delivery of cash and other valuables using lightly regulated van-for-hire apps
With Chinese authorities clamping down on digital payments used in online fraud, scammers are using freight delivery apps to evade detection. Photo: AI generated

By the time Chen Zhen realized she was being scammed, she had already lost hundreds of thousands of yuan.

“Everything happened so fast,” the 37-year-old Beijing resident told Caixin on July 13. Chen discovered the scam and reported it to police on Nov. 16 last year. It had just three days since she was lured by the promise of easy money for simple online tasks.

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