澳数千人收到勒索短信
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自本周一起,澳大利亚有数千人收到一条死亡威胁短信,称如果不在48小时内支付5000澳元,就会性命不保。澳大利亚警方称该短信可能是有组织犯罪团伙所为,并告诫人们收到此类短信后“不要回复,立即删除,不要惊慌”。
Thousands of Australians have received a
Thousands of Australians have received a "death threat" text
 
Thousands of Australians have received a "death threat" text, demanding they pay 5,000 Australian dollars or face being murdered.
 
The scale of the scam(骗局,诡计) has surprised the police authorities.
 
At a press conference in Queensland, Det Supt Brian Hay said: "Do not respond. Delete it immediately and don't panic... because that's what they prey1 upon."
 
The fraud is believed to be the work of an organized crime gang.
 
Huge scale
 
The message, which began to hit people's phones on Monday, reads: "Sum1 paid me to kill you. Get spared, 48hrs to pay $5000. If you inform the police or anybody, death is promised."
 
It directs people to a Yahoo email account which police have now disabled.
 
Mr Hay told reporters that enquiries were ongoing2 as to whether the criminals were based in Australia.
 
Some people had already fallen for the scam, mainly those with little experience of text messaging, he revealed.
 
He said that the scale of the scam was "unprecedented3".
 
"We've never see this anything like this before - to have so many people contacted at the same time."
 
"There is an extraordinary amount of Australian consumer data that they are exploiting," he added.
 
He added that the scam was likely to be the work of organized criminals rather than an individual.


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1 prey g1czH     
n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨
参考例句:
  • Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
  • The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
2 ongoing 6RvzT     
adj.进行中的,前进的
参考例句:
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
3 unprecedented 7gSyJ     
adj.无前例的,新奇的
参考例句:
  • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
  • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
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