A retired local woman in her seventies was cheated out of 23,400 euros (HK$213,850) in an online dating scam.
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Man was arrested for defrauding three male victims out of a total of MOP 4,800 claiming that he could provide sex services for them.
A Public Security Police (PSP) officer and his wife have been arrested for allegedly cheating two men out of HK$10 million in a casino chip redemption deal.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) have noticed that someone recently posted an online message about a friend who fell victim to a bogus online job ad, according to a PJ statement on Sunday.
A local man and a woman were arrested on Friday for cheating a local man out of over MOP 13 million in an online credit-for-sex scam, according to a special press conference held by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Saturday.
Nine men were arrested on Tuesday for conspiring to provide forged documents to defraud a local bank by applying for bogus car loans, two of which totalling HK$900,000 (MOP 926,862) were paid to the applicants.
A local man was arrested on Monday for cheating a Hong Kong man out of HK$230,000 he had been given as a deposit to purchase facemasks.
A local woman was arrested on Thursday for cheating a female civil servant out of about MOP 1.04 million to purchase two properties in the UK.
A number of residents had received an SMS on their smartphones sent from a local smartphone number offering them “soaring” stock earnings.