FBI: Chinese speakers threatened with Beijing prosecution • The Register

Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI warns.

In telephone calls carried out in Chinese, the scammers reel in targets under the pretense that they have unpaid bills related to recent surgical procedures.

They use spoofed telephone numbers belonging to the claims departments of legitimate US health insurance providers to add a layer of authenticity to the scam, but that authenticity quickly evaporates.

If, for some reason, targets entertain the conversation about paying for a surgery they almost certainly did not receive, the scammers get them to join a video call. At this point, they present the potential victim with a fraudulent invoice.

When they inevitably decline to pay, the scammers say they will refer the cas