Hong Kong and Singaporean police have teamed up to smash a cross-border syndicate suspected of spending about HK$18 million (US$2.3 million) to buy prepaid SIM cards for running phone scams. In Hong Kong, a police raid on seven offices led to the arrest of four local men, aged 23 to 48, with officers also seizing…
Hong Kong police have smashed a fraud syndicate and arrested six suspects who allegedly cheated at least 12 victims out of about HK$520,000 (US$66,667) in a series of phone scams since last November. Officers on Sunday also urged schools to be on their guard against phone fraudsters after syndicate members were found in some cases…
More than 300 mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong were victims of phone scams last year with losses reaching HK$230 million (US$29.5 million), according to the city’s security chief who added that police had logged 16 such cases in January this year alone. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said on Saturday that losses from…
A 22-year-old mainland Chinese student at the University of Hong Kong has lost HK$1.8 million (US$231,300) to fraudsters in a phone scam, the second such victim from the institution in less than a week. A police source said on Tuesday the female student had received a call in December from someone impersonating staff from the…
A man in eastern China was arrested for operating more than 400 mobile phones simultaneously to enhance his chances of winning gifts in live-streams. The man, surnamed Ma, was discovered managing the hundreds of devices in a small garage within a residential compound in Jiangsu province in August, as reported by China Newsweek on December…