Just last week, Xu Yuyu was poised to start a new chapter of her life as a college freshman. But in a matter of days, the 19-year-old's story came to a tragic end, as she died of a heart attack after losing her tuition money in a phone scam. Xu's death has sparked a nationwide conversation about the data security gaps that allow scammers to prey on the underprivileged and unaware.
上周，徐玉玉本已準備邁入大學，開始人生的新篇章。但是幾天以后，這位19歲女孩的生命卻以悲劇告終，因為她在遭受手機詐騙丟失學費后，突發心臟病而死。徐玉玉的死亡引發了全民對數據安全缺陷的討論，因為數據安全缺陷讓詐騙者對條件較差或安全意識較弱的人有機可乘。
Xu, who came from a low-income family in Shandong province, was set to enter Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications next month. Xu's family had scraped together 10,000 yuan in tuition and fees for her first semester, and she had applied for an additional grant from the local education bureau, her father said.
徐玉玉來自山東省一個收入較低的家庭，原本打算下個月去南京郵電大學上學。她爸爸說，家里人東拼西湊給她湊了第一學期的10000元學費，她自己還申請了當地教育局的助學金。
On August 18, the bureau's officials called Xu to tell her that the grant money would be available soon. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when Xu received another call the next day from someone claiming to represent the education bureau. The caller persuaded her to deposit 9,900 yuan, almost all of her tuition money, in a third-party account, supposedly in order to access the grant money. The caller promised to return all of the money along with the aid money within half an hour, but when Xu called back after the promised transfer did not occur, the number had been switched off. Xu and her father went to the police station to report the scam, but on her way home, Xu entered cardiac arrest. She died two days later on August 21.
8月18日，徐玉玉接到了教育局的電話，說助學金很快就能發放下來。第二天，徐玉玉接到另一個自稱是教育局工作人員的人打來的電話，她沒有察覺到任何問題。打電話的人說服她把幾乎全部的學費9900元打入一個第三方賬戶，聲稱是為了獲得助學金。打電話者承諾會在半小時內將所有錢連帶助學金一起返還給她，但是當錢沒有到賬時，徐玉玉打電話回去卻發現該號碼已經關機了。徐玉玉和父親一起到公安局報了案，但是在回家的路上，她心臟驟停，不省人事。兩天以后于8月21日去世。
The scammer was clearly familiar with Xu's underprivileged background and educational plans. This raises a key question: how did the scammer know so much about Xu and how easy is it for scammers to access personal information?
顯然詐騙者很清楚徐玉玉家庭貧困的背景以及她的上學計劃。這引出了一個關鍵問題：為什么詐騙者對徐玉玉這么了解，詐騙者獲取個人信息到底有多容易？
Data security is lax on China's mobile virtual networks, which the scammer used to call Xu. Although Chinese law requires that mobile phone operators verify the identities of their subscribers, an investigation by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in July showed that over one-third of telecommunication companies flouted this rule.
中國虛擬網絡的數據安全很松懈，因此詐騙者才能給徐玉玉打電話。雖然中國法律要求手機運營商要核實用戶的身份，但七月份工業信息部的一項調查顯示，超過三分之一的電訊公司都忽略了這條規定。
Beijing and Shandong police are investigating the events leading up to Xu's death. But data theft and phone scams remain a major concern. One recent investigation by the public security bureau of a city in Sichuan province uncovered an illegal personal information trafficking ring that involved over 3,000 people.
北京和山東警方都在調查導致徐玉玉死亡的這一事件。但是數據盜竊和手機詐騙依然是個主要問題。四川省某市公安局的近期調查發現了一個包括3000多人的違法私人信息交易圈。
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