At about 11 am today (20th), a 19-year-old man in a unit of Lai Kit Building, Lai Tak Estate, Tai Hang received a strange call. It is alleged that the male victim was involved in a crime involving opening a bank account in Shanghai for illegal fundraising. The victim was asked to use the communication app "Let's Talk" for investigation, and he was asked to transfer funds separately to prove his innocence.
The male victim followed the instructions and deposited about HK$2 million into 3 accounts designated by the other party through his bank account five times from May 6 to May 17. However, he suspected that he had been deceived and reported the crime. .
Police officers arrived at the scene. After preliminary investigation, the case was classified as obtaining property by deception. The case was handed over to the 1st Team of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Eastern District Police District for follow-up. No arrests have been made so far.
▼The police broke "Guess who I am" earlier, and the fraud group involved 1.15 million yuan, mainly targeting old women▼
On April 20, the police arrested two masterminds of an electronic fraud syndicate, as well as the suspects who were responsible for the settlement of fraudulent money and "watching water".
The police found another elderly female victim near the settlement location, who was planning to hand over 150,000 yuan to the swindler, but was fortunately stopped by the police in time.
After investigation by the police, it was found that the syndicate was specialized in female elders, taking advantage of their love of sons, pretending to be their sons, and then falsely claiming that they were arrested by the police or public security and that a large amount of bail was required, in an attempt to defraud the victims of their savings.
The victims ranged in age from 65 to 92 years old, and the total amount of defrauded money was 1.15 million.
▼The police cracked 19 cases of electrical fraud, detained 27 people, involved 280 million yuan
The police have also detected 19 cases of electrical fraud, arrested 27 men and women, and defrauded up to 280 million Hong Kong dollars. The victims' losses ranged from 8,700 to 250 million Hong Kong dollars. One of the victims was a 91-year-old woman who was defrauded of 2.5 million. 100 million Hong Kong dollars, which is the biggest loss of the "counterfeit official fraud" last year.
The police investigation found that the arrested 27 people were involved in more than 7 cross-border electricity fraud syndicates.
Some scam groups use the new crown pneumonia as an excuse. The scammers will point out that citizens have traveled to high-risk areas, spread the epidemic, violated epidemic prevention regulations, or illegally purchased vaccines and epidemic prevention supplies in the mainland, and then forwarded their calls to fake police.
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A 23-year-old female master in Yau Ma Tei was charged more than ten times by the "public security" electric scam. The police broke the "Guess who I am" "Guess who I am". Fake police er 100,000 "guarantee" police cracked 19 cases of electrical fraud