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International students are being bombarded by scams asking for money and personal information and authorities say the bad actors are using increasingly sophisticated techniques.
Scammers are increasingly targeting Chinese international students, with the scams using increasingly sophisticated techniques to imitate authorities. Authorities say just under $9 million has been lost to such scams since the beginning of the year.