An 83-year-old woman received a call from a man claiming to be her son saying that she owed gambling debts and asked the old woman to pay the debt on her behalf. The old woman finally saw through the scam after contacting her family and called the police. On the same day, the police officers arrested the 26-year-old man who was about to collect the fraudulent money outside the old woman’s residence in Yuen Long. He is being detained for investigation.
The case was handed over to Team Six of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Yuen Long Police District for follow-up. The police do not rule out the arrest of more people.
The police said that they received a report yesterday from an 83-year-old local woman, saying that the day before yesterday (11th) she received a call from a man who claimed to be her son, claiming that she had owed debts due to gambling and asked the victim to pay the debt of 270,000 yuan. Will come to collect money.
The victim then handed over a total of 270,000 yuan in cash to two men in three installments.
It is understood that one of the men came to collect money twice, and the other man came to collect money once.
The victim received another call yesterday from a man who asked her to pay 30,000 yuan in cash in the same way. The victim contacted his family for verification and reported the case.
The Yuen Long Police District Task Force and the Criminal Department launched an investigation. At about 6:30 p.m. He was later arrested on suspicion of "obtaining property by deceit", and is investigating whether he is related to other similar cases, including whether he was one of the people who came to collect money from the victim the day before.
The police reminded that anyone who claimed to be a relative or friend by phone, said that he had changed his phone number, and asked the victim to borrow money and remittance may be a scam. If the public has doubts, they should call the "Anti-Scam Easy 18222" hotline for inquiries. Take the initiative to care for elderly relatives and friends and share anti-fraud information with them.
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