Fake mainland official phone scam now!
At about 3 o'clock this afternoon (21st), the police received a report from a 20-year-old female student from the Mainland surnamed Jiang from the student dormitory of the Polytechnic University, saying that since the end of April, unknown calls have been received one after another. The female student was suspected of committing a criminal offence and provided her with a link to a website asking her to enter her personal bank account information. The female student was not afraid of fraud and entered the information on the website according to the instructions. Later, she found out that 300,000 yuan in her account had been transferred. He was deceived and called the police for help.
The police temporarily classified the property as obtaining property by deception, and handed it over to the first team of the Kowloon City Police District Criminal Investigation Team to follow up. No arrests have been made so far.
The deceived female college student is studying at the Polytechnic University (file picture)
▼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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