Last year, a woman in Macau received a fraudulent phone call posing as a mainland official, falsely claiming that she was involved in a mainland money laundering case. She handed over the login details of her mainland bank account for investigation as instructed, and later found that a sum of about 14 million yuan had been transferred.
The Macau Superintendent Police found that after the fraudulent money was transferred to a Macau bank account, it was then transferred to a Hong Kong bank account.
The Hong Kong police found that at least two local accounts had received and processed a total of 11.8 million yuan in fraudulent money. Yesterday, two local men were arrested on suspicion of money laundering. The Macao Judicial Police arrested a Macao woman on the same day, and the three arrested persons were two The account holder involved in the case.
Guo Jianle, a senior inspector of the Commercial Crime Investigation Division of the police, said that the victim disclosed his 7 mainland bank information to the fraudster, and the fraudulent money was transferred to 5 Macau accounts and then to at least 2 Hong Kong accounts.
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The police had earlier received information from the Macau Superintendent Police, alleging that a female victim living in Macau received a fraudulent phone call posing as a mainland official in September last year, falsely claiming that the victim was involved in multiple money laundering cases in the mainland and was wanted by the mainland. According to the instructions, the victim handed over his multiple mainland bank accounts and login passwords to the fraudsters for investigation purposes. Later, the victim discovered that a sum of about 14 million yuan in the account had been transferred and called the police.
The Macao Judicial Police investigation found that the 14 million yuan was transferred to multiple bank accounts in Macau, and then scattered to bank accounts in Hong Kong.
The police received a report and conducted an investigation. Yesterday (19th), two local men, aged 27 and 68, were arrested on charges of money laundering. They were the holders of the Hong Kong bank account involved in the case. The account was used to receive and process fraudulent funds of about 11.8 million yuan. Yuan, they were reported as college students and unemployed. On the same day, the Macau Judicial Police arrested a 21-year-old woman in Macau, whose Macau bank account was used to receive fraudulent money and transferred it to a Hong Kong bank account.
The case is still under investigation and police do not rule out more arrests.
Guo Jianle, senior inspector of the Commercial Crime Investigation Division of the police, said that the victim disclosed his seven mainland bank information to the fraudster, and the fraudulent funds were transferred to five Macau accounts and then to at least two Hong Kong accounts.
Hong Kong bank accounts received the most fraudulent funds from November last year to the beginning of this month. At present, most of the fraudulent funds have flowed out, and no fraudulent funds have been frozen. The police will continue to analyze the flow of funds and investigate whether other people are still involved.
In addition to using different excuses to lure victims into remittances to unknown accounts, fraudsters will also require victims to open bank accounts, or hand over existing bank account information and passwords for investigation purposes. The fraudsters will then conduct money laundering activities to Increase the difficulty of police investigation.
The police stressed that under any circumstances, law enforcement officers will not require citizens to make any remittances to accounts of unknown origin or submit login passwords.
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