Frozen payments involved email fraud, online romance scams and investment fraud. Phone frauds include fake officials, bogus kidnappings and the “guess who I am” scam.
— Reuters
the special unit had successfully solved rose 76% to 125 in the first quarter of 2019 from 71 in the same period last year. – that had been transferred into scammers’ bank accounts in Hong Kong, mainland China and other countries from January to March. He said the number of the requests was a 40% increase compared to 277 in the same period last year.
Although some of the cases came from outside Hong Kong, local police were involved because the bilked money was transferred into bank accounts in the city.
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