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CTOnews.com, July 20 (Xinhua)-- Alipay today issued a notice saying that fraudsters have recently fraudulently made video calls using Apple's "FaceTime" function by impersonating the identities of "Alipay customer service" and "Alipay Ant Financial Services Group customer service center".

In this regard, Alipay said that it will not contact users by means of "FaceTime", personal social accounts and so on. This kind of "customer service" is all frauds. In addition, Alipay official customer service, please identify the customer service telephone number 95188, and Alipay App "my customer service".

As previously reported by CTOnews.com, JD.com Finance and Wechat team also issued a similar notice a few days ago, saying that they will not contact users through FaceTime to remind users not to fall into fraud.

FaceTime is Apple's built-in video call software that allows video calls between two FaceTime-equipped devices via Wi-Fi or cellular data networking.

JD.com Finance has said that there are three main purposes of FaceTime video fraud:

Send spam: once you answer it, spam will appear on the screen.

Test account activity: used for the next step of harassment, account theft and other operations.

Intercept facial portraits: may be used to crack face recognition systems and other purposes.

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