In the first six months of this year, 2,292 cases of online mask purchase fraud involving RMB 70.22 million and 96 people were arrested

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Written by: Kong Fanxu and Zheng Qiuling

2020-07-29 17:22

The new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong continues. The Police Force announced that a total of 32,345 crimes were recorded in the first half of this year. There were 8,129 fraud cases, an increase of 1.1 times. Among them, there were 2,292 online mask fraud cases, with a loss of 70.22 million yuan. A total of 96 people have been killed. catch.

Telephone scams and online love scams continued to record a significant increase. In the first half of this year, there were 649 electronic scams, an increase of 1.8 times, and the loss amounted to 287 million yuan. 94% came from "fake officials" cases; there were 429 online love scams. Cases, an increase of 52.1%.

According to the police, there were 2,292 online mask scams in the first half of this year, with losses amounting to RMB 70.22 million, and 96 people were arrested. (Profile picture)

There were 8,129 fraud cases in the first half of this year, an increase of 4,274 cases or 1.1 times from the 3,855 cases in the same period in 2019. The increase was mainly due to the online mask purchase scams that occurred in late January due to the epidemic. There were 2,292 cases, an increase of more than 50%, with a total loss of 70.22 million yuan. The number of cases fell from the peak of 873 cases in a single month in February to 109 cases in June. The police have so far arrested 96 related fraudsters and solved 341 cases.

Electricity fraud increased by 1.8 times, online love scam cases rose by 52.1%

There were a total of 649 telephone fraud cases, an increase of 418 cases, an increase of 1.8 times, mainly related to "guess who I am", 331 cases increased by 1.7 times, and 317 cases of "fake officials" increased by 1.9 times. The total amount of losses in telephone fraud cases was 287 million yuan, an increase of 4.4 times. Ninety-four of the losses came from "fake officials" cases, and the total amount of losses was 270 million yuan, an increase of 4.8 times. There were 429 online love scams, an increase of 147 cases, an increase of 52.1%, and a total loss of 189 million yuan, a decrease of 10.5%.

The police "Anti-Fraud Coordination Center" received more than 65,000 calls from the public during the three years of its establishment, and the amount of fraudulent funds intercepted globally exceeded 6.3 billion. Based on the first six months of this year, it has successfully intercepted about 1.9 billion yuan of fraudulent funds in about 410 fraud cases and prevented the victims of more than 140 fraud cases from sending fraudulent funds.

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Robberies are mainly on the streets and convenience stores

There were a total of 186 robberies, an increase of 3.2 times from 44 cases in the same period last year. They mainly involved street robberies and convenience store robberies. There were 61 (an increase of 44 cases, an increase of 2.6 times) and 37 cases (an increase of 36 cases, respectively). 36 times), the detection rate was 57.5%, 107 cases were involved, and 197 people were arrested.

There were 1,156 burglaries, an increase of 370 or 47.1% from 786 in the same period last year. There were 10,762 thefts, an increase of 854 cases over the same period last year, an increase of 8.6%, of which 480 cases of unauthorized removal of vehicles, an increase of 272 cases, an increase of 1.3 times.

There were 186 robberies in the first half of this year, an increase of 3.2 times from the 44 cases in the same period last year, mainly involving street robberies and convenience store robberies. (Profile picture)

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