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Petition Type: New
ID: 10313
Submitted: April 14, 2023 at 6:35:05 PM
First Name: Baicun
Last Name: Wu
Pronoun: he/him
Student Number: 20304715
Email: 21bw8@queensu.ca
Degree Program: Arts and Science
Plan: ENSC
Level of Study: 1
Petition Categories
Petition Categories: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Appeal Category Detail: Redo some assignments and get grades
Code: CHEM 112
Term: Fall/Winter
Year: 2023
Petition Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Petition Letter
Petition Letter: My name is Baicun Wu, student number is 20304715. I am very worried about my wasted time and grades this semester. I wish I could drop my Chem 112 course. And the course Geo 200, I hope you can let me do quiz 3, 4 and 6 again.
I suffered from telecom fraud at the end of January, but I didn't realize that I had been cheated during these two months. I didn't find out about the scam until the end of the month, but luckily, I haven't lost any money. The fraudster put me under a lot of psychological stress for two months until I got up the courage to tell my friends about it and they told me it was all a scam. I called the Chinese Embassy and they said it was a fraudster trying to scam me.
It's actually a common fraud that fraudsters pretend to be policemen and say I committed a crime. But I didn't know that and really thought the police came to me and they monitored me for two months as part of an investigation. I didn't know something was wrong until recently when they said they were going to charge me.
My grades have been badly affected by this incident this semester. I'm really worried about that, and I'm even more sorry that a few months have been wasted. I also feel sad for myself as an international student who can't distinguish the swindle then wasted time. I asked Daralyn Auld, the International Students' Academic Advisor, about this the day before yesterday. She replied that I should write you this petition.
For the previous two months, the fraudster had placed me under 24-hour surveillance, reporting and recording wherever I went, in the name of police. As a result, in the past two months, I not only didn't want to study (because they said I had 1.5 million stolen money on my card, I would go to jail if I didn't cooperate with the investigation), but also didn't go anywhere to relax during the holiday. And because of what they called investigations and interrogations, they missed a lot of deadlines to complete the assignment. My computer may have been infected with a virus, which made me unable to hand in the chemistry report on time during that period. Now my computer is fine, but it's hard for me to recover the lost time.
As a freshman, I am very sad that I didn't get off to a good start in my first semester in Queens. Writing this petition is my only option right now. The deception seems flawed to me now, but I was gripped by fear at the time. . Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.
I suffered from telecom fraud at the end of January, but I didn't realize that I had been cheated during these two months. I didn't find out about the scam until the end of the month, but luckily, I haven't lost any money. The fraudster put me under a lot of psychological stress for two months until I got up the courage to tell my friends about it and they told me it was all a scam. I called the Chinese Embassy and they said it was a fraudster trying to scam me.
It's actually a common fraud that fraudsters pretend to be policemen and say I committed a crime. But I didn't know that and really thought the police came to me and they monitored me for two months as part of an investigation. I didn't know something was wrong until recently when they said they were going to charge me.
My grades have been badly affected by this incident this semester. I'm really worried about that, and I'm even more sorry that a few months have been wasted. I also feel sad for myself as an international student who can't distinguish the swindle then wasted time. I asked Daralyn Auld, the International Students' Academic Advisor, about this the day before yesterday. She replied that I should write you this petition.
For the previous two months, the fraudster had placed me under 24-hour surveillance, reporting and recording wherever I went, in the name of police. As a result, in the past two months, I not only didn't want to study (because they said I had 1.5 million stolen money on my card, I would go to jail if I didn't cooperate with the investigation), but also didn't go anywhere to relax during the holiday. And because of what they called investigations and interrogations, they missed a lot of deadlines to complete the assignment. My computer may have been infected with a virus, which made me unable to hand in the chemistry report on time during that period. Now my computer is fine, but it's hard for me to recover the lost time.
As a freshman, I am very sad that I didn't get off to a good start in my first semester in Queens. Writing this petition is my only option right now. The deception seems flawed to me now, but I was gripped by fear at the time. . Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.
Academic Plan
Academic Plan: I suffered from telecom fraud at the end of January, but I didn't realize that I had been cheated during these two months. I didn't find out about the scam until the end of the month, but luckily I haven't lost any money.
During this period, the fraudster put a lot of psychological pressure on me in the name of the Chinese police. For example, Report your whereabouts on time and cooperate with the investigation so that I can be cleared sooner. In the past two months, I locked myself at home except for the classes I had to attend. I felt very depressed every day. Until April 1st, the swindler said that he needed me to provide a bond to extend my time in Canada to cooperate with the investigation. The amount demanded was as high as rmb 1.5 million. The swindler also gave me an email template and asked me to try to cheat my family out of the money. This made me very suspicious, so I went to the apartment building where I was staying the next day to find my friend, and we called the embassy and found out that it was a form of telecom fraud.
Later I learned from the embassy and online cases that the link they gave me may contain a virus, so my computer except for nearly two months of problems. For example, the chemical report website can not be accessed, and may even reveal a lot of my personal information. Always on the advice of my embassy and friends, I simply disconnected Skype, the video conferencing software used by the fraudster, and deleted the app. But the email template that let me to deceive my parents is still there, and if I log into the app again, I don't know if they have deleted the chat history (if they can find it, it will be all in Chinese, because they pretended to be Chinese police). I still wish I didn't have to remember that time.
However, my academic scores was seriously affected by my neglect in these two months: I missed some assignment deadlines, so I could not preview the courses taught by the professor on time. I was very annoyed at the time I had wasted.n the new semester, I will learn from this experience and improve my awareness of prevention. Let this kind of thing will not happen to me again, I will remind other students, let alone let this kind of thing affect my Queens' life.
During this period, the fraudster put a lot of psychological pressure on me in the name of the Chinese police. For example, Report your whereabouts on time and cooperate with the investigation so that I can be cleared sooner. In the past two months, I locked myself at home except for the classes I had to attend. I felt very depressed every day. Until April 1st, the swindler said that he needed me to provide a bond to extend my time in Canada to cooperate with the investigation. The amount demanded was as high as rmb 1.5 million. The swindler also gave me an email template and asked me to try to cheat my family out of the money. This made me very suspicious, so I went to the apartment building where I was staying the next day to find my friend, and we called the embassy and found out that it was a form of telecom fraud.
Later I learned from the embassy and online cases that the link they gave me may contain a virus, so my computer except for nearly two months of problems. For example, the chemical report website can not be accessed, and may even reveal a lot of my personal information. Always on the advice of my embassy and friends, I simply disconnected Skype, the video conferencing software used by the fraudster, and deleted the app. But the email template that let me to deceive my parents is still there, and if I log into the app again, I don't know if they have deleted the chat history (if they can find it, it will be all in Chinese, because they pretended to be Chinese police). I still wish I didn't have to remember that time.
However, my academic scores was seriously affected by my neglect in these two months: I missed some assignment deadlines, so I could not preview the courses taught by the professor on time. I was very annoyed at the time I had wasted.n the new semester, I will learn from this experience and improve my awareness of prevention. Let this kind of thing will not happen to me again, I will remind other students, let alone let this kind of thing affect my Queens' life.
Documentation
Professional Letter Detail: NO DOC
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Documentation Detail: The fraudster gave me an email template for figuring out how to ask my parents for money.
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Documentation Detail: The fraudster who sent me the email template was also the one who communicated with me mainly as a policeman.
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Documentation Detail: I just logged back into my Skype account and found out that the fraudsters had called me three times after I hung up and told me to reply as soon as I saw the message.
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Documentation Detail: This was January 14 of this year when I had my first contact with them and they asked me to interrogate me and give me my address. They also initially sent me a short video about how to prevent their