Iranian police busts fraud gang for study abroad scams

Tehran [Iran], October 30: Iranian police announced on Saturday they have arrested key members of a gang who had swindled millions of dollars from people on the pretense of sending them to study in foreign universities.
In an intelligence operation, Iranian police identified and arrested the swindlers who used extensive social media advertising to claim they could send students to Türkiye to study medicine, semi-official Mehr news agency quoted police spokesman Mehdi Hajian as saying.
The scammers deceitfully assured applicants that they would be admitted to Turkish universities by sending them phony student identity cards and admission papers via the internet, according to the Mehr news agency report.
The gang used the same scheme to defraud 200 people out of 6.25 million U.S. dollars by charging each of them between 15,600 dollars and 31,000 dollars, said Hajian.
Five of the gang's key members have been detained, and investigations are underway to find the remaining members in cooperation with Interpol, he said.
Source: Xinhua