China's Public Security Ministry issued a warning Thursday to the public, the elderly especially, about tomb-related fraud cases.

It said that criminals were persuading people to buy tombs, promising these could be re-sold at high profits when this was often not the case.

It said older people, aged 60 to 80, were often the targets of these frauds. The ministry said in past months it had cracked down on "many" such cases and the public should be wary of such frauds.

(Xinhua News Agency March 20, 2009)