Hong Kong police have arrested three foreign nationals on suspicion of theft and obtaining property by deception in separate incidents on The Peak and in Lan Kwai Fong. A tourist reported to the force at about 7pm on Thursday that her wallet was stolen while she was sightseeing on The Peak and her credit cards…
Hong Kong police have arrested three foreign nationals on suspicion of theft and obtaining property by deception in separate incidents on The Peak and in Lan Kwai Fong. A tourist reported to the force at about 7pm on Thursday that her wallet was stolen while she was sightseeing on The Peak and her credit cards…
Hong Kong authorities will consider reducing the amount of compensated sick leave or hospital days that traffic accident victims can claim from a government fund, as part of a review to clamp down on welfare abuse, a minister has said. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said on Wednesday that authorities aimed to…
A Hong Kong retiree has been swindled out of more than HK$11 million (US$1.4 million) by fraudsters posing as police officers and technical support staff in the city’s biggest cyber scam case. In a post on its CyberDefender Facebook page, the force said the case came to light after the woman, 60, sought help from…
Hong Kong police have arrested 275 people over defrauding a government fund for traffic accident victims out of more than HK$14 million (US$1.8 million) by fabricating evidence or even orchestrating incidents. Some of those arrested were linked to a collision between a car and a bus that was arranged by a criminal group, where at…
Hong Kong police have arrested 275 people over defrauding a government fund for traffic accident victims out of more than HK$14 million (US$1.8 million) by fabricating evidence or even orchestrating incidents. Some of those arrested were linked to a collision between a car and a bus that was arranged by a criminal group, where at…
Hong Kong police have arrested a 14-year-old boy for allegedly collecting HK$554,000 (US$71,235) from three elderly residents as part of a phone scam in which victims were told they needed to pay bail money to have their sons released. The force said on Saturday that the teen was apprehended a day earlier on suspicion of…
Hong Kong police have arrested a 14-year-old boy for allegedly collecting more than HK$550,000 (US$70,700) from three elderly residents as part of a phone scam that claimed the victims needed to pay bail money to have their sons released. The force said on Saturday that the boy was apprehended a day earlier on suspicion of…
Hong Kong police were called to a cryptocurrency exchange store in Mong Kok on Saturday after a woman said she had been scammed out of about HK$93,000 (US$11,970) worth of virtual currency by a man she met online. A source said the 26-year-old woman had met a man on social media who claimed he could…
Hong Kong police were called to a cryptocurrency exchange store in Mong Kok on Saturday after a woman said she had been scammed out of about HK$93,000 (US$11,970) worth of virtual currency by a man she met online. A source said the 26-year-old woman had met a man on social media who claimed he could…