Crime · China
Telecom-network fraud
In plain English
The PRC statutory category for fraud committed by telecommunications or network means. It is the Chinese counterpart to Japan’s 特殊詐欺 and Korea’s 전기통신금융사기 — one phenomenon, three statutory vocabularies.
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Legal term. Defined by statute. Carries legal consequences.
The instrument
中华人民共和国反电信网络诈骗法
Anti-Telecom and Network Fraud Law of the PRC
A dedicated national statute for this offence category
Literally
Telecom-network fraud; 电诈 is the clipped form.
What English gets wrong
Rendering it telecom fraud drops 网络, network or internet, which is in the legal term itself. It also understates the category: this is a named statutory offence with its own dedicated national law, not a generic descriptor.
What to write instead
telecom-network fraud, giving 电信网络诈骗 and noting 电诈 as the everyday clipped form.
Related
- Tokushu sagi — 特殊詐欺
- Telecommunications financial fraud — 전기통신금융사기 / 보이스피싱
- Assisting information-network crime — 帮信罪 / 幫信罪
Sources
- Anti-Telecom and Network Fraud Law of the People’s Republic of China