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Written by: Kong Fanxu and Zeng Aihao
2020-09-08 00:01
Last update date: 2020-09-08 00:05
The new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong has been repeated. As citizens spend more time staying at home to avoid the epidemic and work from home, online fraud cases have increased accordingly.
The Police Cyber Security and Technology Crime Investigation Bureau pointed out that 6,414 online fraud cases were recorded in the first half of this year, which doubled from the same period last year, with losses amounting to 1.527 billion yuan, an increase of 16.7%.
Among online fraud cases, naked chat blackmail cases have increased significantly. There were 206 cases in the first half of this year, an increase of nearly 1.3 times over the same period last year. The loss amounted to 1.3 million yuan, a sharp increase of 2.25 times. The youngest boy was a 12-year-old boy. After falling into the trap of naked chat, he was filmed and threatened to buy a point card and lost more than 1,000 yuan.
The highest amount of loss involved was a 63-year-old man. He met a scammer through social platforms in April and had a naked chat with him. Later, the other party blackmailed him more than 190,000 yuan on the grounds of publishing his naked chat clips. The victim Call the police for help after remittance.
5% of the victims are women
The police believe that the increase in online nude chat blackmail cases is related to the fact that citizens spend more time surfing the Internet at home. Among the 206 cases from January to June this year, 95% of the victims were males and 5% were females; four became students, ranging from 12 to 63 years old .
The Chief Inspector of the Cyber Security Section of the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Investigation Bureau, Chen Huisi, pointed out that the 12-year-old boy who was studying in Primary Six reported that he had known a suspicious person through instant messaging software in May, netizens scammers and conducted naked chats with him to lure him to play Naked chat and took pictures of the naked chat, and then used this to force him to buy a point card. Otherwise, the boy would eventually lose 1,024 yuan for the naked chat.
After the victim suffered losses, he informed his father of the incident, and his father was accompanied by the police for help.
The boy is the youngest victim in the police "naked chat" scam record in the past five years.
63-year-old male character was forced to pay 190,000 yuan for "naked chat" trap
The police stated that the victim of the "naked chat" scam involving the highest amount of loss in the first half of the year was a 63-year-old man.
In April, he met a scammer through social platforms and had a naked chat with him. After the period, the other party also extorted more than 190,000 yuan from him on the grounds of publicizing his naked chat clips. The victim called the police for help after remittance.
4046 online shopping fraud cases increased by 2.7 times
Under the epidemic, citizens are inconvenient to go out and often shop online. In the first half of this year, there were 4,046 online shopping fraud cases, an increase of 2.7 times compared with the same period last year, and the loss amounted to 88.8 million yuan, a sharp increase of 5.7 times.
The upward trend is mainly related to mask fraud. The police received 2,292 cases, accounting for 35.7% of the overall technology crimes, involving a total of 70 million yuan. As of July this year, 104 people have been arrested, involving 352 cases.
In response to mask fraud cases, the Cybercrime Division comprehensively coordinated the resources of the police force and coordinated criminal units in various police districts to launch a law enforcement operation code-named "Lonely Peak".
The Chief Director of the Consumer Council’s Complaints and Consultation Department, Zhuang Longwu, said that the Consumer Council receives an average of 25,000 complaints each year. In the past, there were about 4,000 to 5,000 complaints about online shopping, but in the first eight months of this year, there were already more than 7,600.
Zhuang reminded consumers that if they use the freight collect method to charge, they should check clearly before paying.
AlipayHK product development director Huang Yuhui also pointed out that when using the online payment platform to pay, you should pay attention to whether the other party is a personal account or a business account. If it is the former, you should judge whether there is a risk.
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