Police warn public of pay-on-delivery scams

Beijing prosecutors are warning residents about a scam that uses pay-on-delivery parcels, calling on people to double check the information of senders.

"Fraudsters were found to have sent deliveries at random in line with personal data they obtained through improper channels, and then required receivers to pay on delivery. The payment wasn't very high, and the contents inside were low-priced goods," said Chen Yutong, a prosecutor from the first branch of the Beijing People's Procuratorate.

"Many receivers paid for the deliveries, as some believed the parcels were sent by friends and some had forgotten what they had bought online," she said. "They didn't think too much, nor checked the senders' information before the payment, because the amount was small."