"Hong Kong 01" has reported several cases of Hong Kong people being "sold piglets" to "fraud camps" in Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries, involving human trafficking and illegal imprisonment. Some people were beaten and electrocuted.
The reporter found that some scammers used the incident to transform into a new type of "online love scam", pretending to be trapped in a Cambodian fraud camp.
Peggy (pseudonym) received a distress message from a Malaysian "boyfriend" she had never met before, claiming that she had escaped from a Cambodian scam camp and was in urgent need of money to smuggle back to Malaysia. Peggy was defrauded of nearly HK$40,000.
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Fraudsters pretend to be trapped in Cambodian scam camp, claiming to smuggle money
Fraud cases in Southeast Asia are becoming more and more exposed, involving human trafficking and illegal imprisonment. So far, Hong Kong has received 36 requests for help, and even exposed the "piglets" sold in the camps who would be beaten and electrocuted.
"Hong Kong 01" found that the swindlers took the relevant incident and transformed it into a new type of "online love scam", pretending to be trapped in a Cambodian fraud camp to demand money from the victim.
Peggy (pseudonym), a local female bitter owner, met a self-proclaimed Malaysian "Jie Zai" while playing games on WeChat three years ago.
The two of them often privately message, and even admitted in the game group that the two are in a "couple relationship", but have never met.
"Boyfriend" Jie Zai claimed that he would come to Hong Kong via Macau and met Peggy for the first time. At 5 pm on August 9, he said that he would take a Kimba from Macau to Hong Kong via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, but then lost contact.
On the 11th, Peggy received a text message from Jay, constantly saying "Save me, come and save me!"
"Boyfriend" Jay Jai claimed to have lost contact with Peggy after taking a Kimba to Hong Kong at 5 pm on August 9.
On the 11th, she received a message from Jie Zai, saying, "Save me, come and save me!" (provided by readers)
Calling the police "useless" and constantly urging remittances
Jay said he was trapped in a Cambodian fraud camp and had escaped to Phnom Penh, but he was penniless and only had a phone, and asked Peggy to send him RM1,500 (about HK$2,600) to smuggle to Thailand and then back to Malaysia .
Peggy claimed to be able to assist Jie Zai to report to the police and contact the consulate, but Wei Jie Zai pointed out that "it's useless to call the police, and we didn't deal with it so quickly", adding that "if it was so easy to solve, there wouldn't be so many people trapped here."
Peggy was dubious at the time, and even asked Jay for his name and ID number to report the crime.
But Jay did not provide it for many days, until Peggy said that if he did not provide it, he would not remit the money, so he successfully obtained his "full name" and his "identity card number".
Peggy finally successfully contacted Jay on whatsapp. He claimed that he was trapped in a fraud camp in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and said that he had successfully escaped and was penniless. He borrowed 1,500 ringgits (about 2,600 Hong Kong dollars) from Peggy, Used for smuggling to Thailand and then to Malaysia.
(provided by the reader)
Jie Tsai later resorted to "hard meat", saying, "Maybe I can go back to Malaysia this time, and I can still contact you. If I can't go back, we can't contact you again."
Peggy also finally remitted money to Jay, and lost contact for a while, but Jay asked Peggy again the next day.
The reporter then questioned Peggy, and she revealed that Jay had borrowed HK$20,000 from her to repay the debt as early as March.
Peggy finally went to Kwai Chung Police Station to report the case. At that time, she was still reluctant to consider it a scam. However, after communicating with the police, the police believed that she had been deceived. The account can be frozen for several months.
You don't believe it's a scam right now?
Hong Kong 01 reporter
After I went to the police station and heard Madam's analysis, you didn't believe it.
Peggy
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