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Taxi Scam Scam Increased to $710,000, Arrested Man Involved in Online Romance Scam, Uh, $4.18 Million

2023-03-02T10:46:59.203Z


A 40-year-old man surnamed Wu falsely claimed to rent out parking spaces in private housing estates in Tseung Kwan O District earlier, defrauding many people. After revealing earlier that 10 victims were defrauded of 465,000 yuan, the police said today (2nd) that after further investigation later, send


A 40-year-old man surnamed Wu falsely claimed to rent out parking spaces in private housing estates in Tseung Kwan O District earlier, defrauding many people. After revealing earlier that 10 victims were defrauded of 465,000 yuan, the police said today (2nd) that after further investigation Afterwards, it was found that 4 more people had been cheated, and a total of 14 people were victimized, involving a total of 717,000 yuan.


Among the evidence seized by the police, they found the ID cards and related documents of the four women. It is believed that Wu Nan was related to four other online love scams in 2016. The four victims lost a total of 4.18 million yuan. Wu Nan was arrested today in Changsha Bay District on suspicion of obtaining property by deception. He is currently being detained for investigation.

It is understood that Wu Nan has been charged after being arrested for parking deception last time, and is being remanded. The police went to the detention center to arrest him again today.


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On the 21st of last month, when explaining the taxi fraud case, the police stated that they received a number of reports from January 17 to February 13 this year, saying that they saw someone claiming to rent out a parking space in a private housing estate in Tseung Kwan O at the end of last year. The photo of the parking space, the victim contacted and understood that the scammer provided forged documents from the Land Registry Office and related documents. After successfully gaining trust, the victim was required to meet in person at the club or restaurant and sign the contract, and pay the one-year rent on the spot in the form of online transfer , remitted money to the scammer’s personal account, and the scammer disappeared after completing the transaction. The victim saw the scammer renting the same batch of parking spaces to multiple people at the same time on the social platform, and it was also for the same contract period. He suspected that he was cheated and called the police. 10 people were injured, with a total loss of 465,000 yuan, and the largest loss amounted to 60,000 yuan.

Inspector Luo Junjie, head of the Technology Crime Unit of the Tseung Kwan O Police District, explained the case last month.

(Photo by Zhu Yonglun)

After the investigation, the police dispatched officers to meet the swindlers disguised as tenants. On the 21st of last month, a 40-year-old unemployed man surnamed Wu was arrested in Tseung Kwan O District. property representing the proceeds of an indictable crime" (commonly known as "money laundering"); and multiple computers and mobile phones, 13 watches worth 7 million yuan, jewelry worth 1 million yuan and Handbags, sneakers with a market value of 60,000 yuan, and 70,000 yuan in cash, the police found evidence such as forged documents involved in the case on the computer, and believed that the property in the case was used to launder criminal proceeds.

After investigation, the police found that 4 more people were victims, and the fraudulent money also increased to more than 710,000 yuan.

It is understood that the most valuable evidence in the case is a number of Rolex watches, each with an average value of 400,000 to 500,000 yuan. The computer of the arrested man has a large number of virtual currency transaction records. , does not rule out that the case involves more victims.

The man falsely claimed that the taxi space exceeded $460,000, and the police seized $8 million of property including multiple Rolex

Source: hk1

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