Very sad to see and also a reminder of why you should protect your personal data and your clients personal data, and we should not give up data protection laws in Europe:
In this case scammers had detailed enough knowledge of the students circumstances to elaborate a scam which was convincing enough to trick the students. Who later suffered heart attack from the stress.
For families under single-child policy, this one child and their education may be everything so the pressure must be enormous.
The UK’s surveillance laws are still going through the European Court of Human Rights at the moment: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/07/ukgovs_mass_surveillance_regime_grilled_in_landmark_hearing_in_european_court/
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this is still going on!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/05/mass_surveillance_european_human_rights/
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