Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged two more people, including a former warehouse manager, for allegedly defrauding the ParknShop supermarket chain out of more than HK$3.2 million (US$407,642) in wages through fraudulent work records. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) announced on Friday that it had levelled a charge of conspiracy to defraud against former…
Hong Kong police have arrested eight suspects aged as young as 20 in a crackdown on a cross-border syndicate that allegedly sold fake concert tickets for a total of HK$650,000 (US$82,800), with the Post learning that Taiwanese star Jay Chou’s fans were among those targeted. The force said on Wednesday that the suspects were all…
Hong Kong police have arrested eight people on suspicion of running a scam ring that bypassed online security checks to open bank accounts by replacing photos on stolen identity cards with deepfakes incorporating fraudsters’ facial features. Senior Superintendent Philip Lui Che-ho of the force’s financial intelligence and investigation bureau said on Saturday the raid was…
Hong Kong police have arrested eight people on suspicion of running a scam ring that bypassed online security checks to open bank accounts by replacing photos on stolen identity cards with deepfakes incorporating fraudsters’ facial features. Senior Superintendent Philip Lui Che-ho of the force’s financial intelligence and investigation bureau said the raid was part of…
Hong Kong police have arrested 11 people on suspicion of cheating at least 150 talent scheme arrivals and mainland Chinese students out of HK$13 million (US$1.7 million) in rent by pretending to be flat owners, with one victim losing more than HK$300,000. The force said on Friday that the scammers had targeted newcomers to the…
Hong Kong police have arrested 13 people in a crackdown on a syndicate that purported to sell concert tickets, with a victim losing HK$640,000 (US$82,200) in a single case for trying to buy 544 non-existent tickets for Cantopop king Andy Lau Tak-wah’s shows. Police intelligence revealed the fraudsters had been active since October last year,…
A former Hong Kong Coliseum manager has acknowledged that the government department responsible for its operation had not issued any guidelines on standards for suspension wires during a fraud trial stemming from the collapse of a giant screen at a concert by Cantopop boy band Mirror that left two dancers injured. But Wendy Tang Hiu-suen…
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged a former senior supervisor of the ParknShop supermarket chain and three ex-contractor and casual workers for allegedly conspiring to deceive the company over wages amounting to more than HK$3.2 million (US$411,980) by using attendance records of “ghost workers”. Lau Kin-pong, 42, former senior supervisor of the chain; Tai Kin-man,…
The father of a Hong Kong dancer paralysed after he was hit by a massive LED screen at a concert by boy band Mirror two years ago has said he hopes justice will be served in a coming trial for his son “who has lost his years of youth and mobility”. Reverend Derek Li Shing-lam,…