Police warn against fraudsters who demand money for non-existent parcel deliveries, and advise constant online vigilance.
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Hi-tech fraudsters used smartphone apps to dupe scores of clients in multi-million dollar scam that has been running since last year.
Scammers are using fake insurance websites in the latest ruse to dupe unwary netizens out of their money.
A local woman reported receiving an English-language WhatsApp message saying she won a US$1 million lottery prize, asking for extra details including her name and age.
A female university student from the mainland was cheated out of 180,000 yuan (MOP 217,000) in a phone scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference on Monday.
A gambler has been cheated out of HK$1.1 million by a mainlander who failed to bring the victim his money that he had asked the suspect to take from the victim’s VIP room account.
A local man was arrested on Tuesday for cheating at least nine women out of over MOP 240,000 in a handbag purchase scam to pay off his gambling debts.
A man was arrested for scamming other’s money by reselling a broken television.
Man arrested on Tuesday in Rua Cidade do Porto in Nape for his alleged involvement in a spectacular online credit-for-sex MOP 13 million scam revealed by the Judiciary Police (PJ) last week.
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