China News Service, April 8. According to the Hong Kong Commercial Daily, the Hong Kong police announced today (8th) the law enforcement actions involving telephone fraud.
Kowloon East Regional Crime Squad Chief Inspector Mok Tsze-wai said that the Kowloon East Regional Crime Department, together with officers from several police districts, launched a three-day anti-fraud operation code-named "High Shore" on April 6 and successfully arrested 19 8 men and 8 women, they are suspected of "obtaining property by deception".
During the operation, the Hong Kong police detected a total of 19 telephone fraud cases, which occurred between August 2020 and March 2022, including 3 cases in East Kowloon, 4 cases in West Kowloon, 6 cases in New Territories South, 2 cases in New Territories North and Hong Kong Island District 4 cases.
Among them, 11 cases were fake official fraud cases and 8 cases were “guess who I am” fraud cases, with a total loss of 280 million yuan (HKD, the same below), and the loss of a single fraud case ranged from 8,700 yuan to 250 million yuan. The $250 million scam was the single largest phone scam last year.
The police also successfully recovered 11 million yuan of lost money, and the operation continues, and it is not ruled out that another person will be arrested.
The Hong Kong police said that in recent years, scammers have used epidemic-related incidents as a pretext to falsely claim that the victim's identity has been stolen, that he has been mistaken for visiting some high-risk areas or that he is listed as a close contact as an excuse.
In addition, the victim will be accused of participating in the smuggling of anti-epidemic items, or the alleged smuggling of vaccines from the mainland to Hong Kong, and the dissemination of false news about the Hong Kong epidemic in the mainland as deceptive excuses.
In addition, scammers will ask victims to download malicious apps, or go to fake websites to enter bank details and passwords, which will eventually transfer all the savings in the accounts.