Criminals posing as telephone company staff threaten service suspension and demand personal details, CTT warns.
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Two online scams and one phone scam were reported by residents on Saturday with their losses ranging from over MOP 300,000 to more than MOP 2 million, over MOP 5.6 million in total.
A local woman has fallen victim has lost over HK$3.6 million (3.73 million patacas) in a phone scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a regular press conference at the PJ headquarters Monday.
The Judiciary Police believe that the fraudsters in the recent wave of phone scams made the calls from foreign countries and not the mainland
The total number of reported scams increased 28.8 percent year on year to 219 in the first quarter, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said on Monday, noting a “noticeable rise” in the number of reported phone scams which rose from 9 in the first three months of last year to 22 in the same period this year.
