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A growing number of Chinese criminals send text messages or emails with the sole purpose of hoodwinking people into parting with their money, the Xinhua news agency reported.


"Defrauders ... send false messages to a mass of cell phone users, telling them they have won prizes in a lottery or they are offered very cheap smuggled goods," said Zhang Xinfeng, assistant minister of public security.