Well-known financial expert Chan Yan-chong only gives investment tips in face-to-face meetings, but the Hong Kong resident has seen many fraud messages purportedly sent by him to potential victims in a long-running online scam in the city and Singapore over the last few years. The City University adjunct professor and columnist said the situation improved…
Hong Kong police have arrested 118 people in a citywide crackdown on online shopping scams involving losses of more than HK$5 million (US$636,940), largely linked to concert ticket sales amid a boom in the city’s live music scene. One of the cases involved a victim selling a clothes iron who was swindled out of HK$1…
Film producer and actor Raymond Wong Pak-ming plans to plead not guilty to insider trading charges brought by Hong Kong’s securities watchdog, according to his legal representative. Wong, 79, is being prosecuted by the Securities and Futures Commission for alleged insider trading concerning shares in Transmit Entertainment, a television series production company previously known as…
Five per cent of more than 90,000 critical infrastructure facilities in Hong Kong had “varying degrees of system vulnerabilities” last year, according to the cybercrime unit of the city’s police force. File photo: Sora Shimazaki, via Pexels. Credential leakage and compromise, hijackable subdomains, and exposed cloud storage were three critical and high-risk vulnerabilities identified in…
Hong Kong police have received more than 40 reports of scams on e-commerce platform Carousell in the past week, with fraudsters using phishing links to swindle victims out of HK$4.6 million (US$586,900), including one vendor who lost nearly HK$650,000 while trying to sell throat lozenges. The force said on Wednesday that a woman who sold…
Hundreds of customers, including young parents, have taken to online platforms to complain about a popular clinic chain in Hong Kong suspected to have abruptly closed down earlier this week. Parents who had paid thousands of Hong Kong dollars in advance for their children’s vaccination at clinics under Alliance Medical Group scrambled to arrange jabs…