With the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, online shopping has become more popular, but there have been more cases of fraud.
The number of fraud reports received by the Hong Kong police in 2020 reached 15,553, the highest in 10 years, 1.75 times more than in 2010, and the proportion of fraud cases in the overall crime number has tripled from 7% to 25% in 10 years.
In 2020, there will be as many as 6678 online shopping scams (of which about two-fifths, or 40%, involve online shopping of masks), and the number of online shopping scams has increased sharply by 413% from 2016 to 2020.
Followed by telephone scams and online love scams, with 1,193 and 905 cases respectively.
Some victims of online shopping scams will also complain to the Consumer Council. Between 2016 and 2020, the number of related complaints increased by 325% to 13,642, accounting for 44% of the Consumer Council’s total complaints in 2020. However, the fraudsters are often socializing The media opened many false accounts without contact information, and the Consumer Council had difficulty investigating the relevant cases.
Although the number of online shopping scams is the largest, in terms of monetary loss, the average loss per online shopping scam is 19,000 yuan, which is much lower than investment scams (HK$3.97 million) and email scams (HK$2.28 million), mainly due to online shopping scams Generally involving low-value goods, such as clothes, concert tickets and food, the monetary loss in each case is generally lower than other fraud crimes.
In terms of detection rate, the fraud detection rate further dropped to 11% in 2020, which is far lower than the overall crime detection rate of 38%. The police explained that many fraudsters commit crimes outside the country, so they need to cooperate with relevant agencies to take cross-border crimes. Law enforcement actions have greatly reduced the rate of solving cases.
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