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CX Daily: Digital Scammers Find Analog Opportunity Exploiting Delivery Rules

Published: Aug. 22, 2025 9:40 a.m. GMT+8

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In Depth: Digital scammers find analog opportunity exploiting delivery rules

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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