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.
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A number of residents had received an SMS on their smartphones sent from a local smartphone number offering them “soaring” stock earnings.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) urged residents on Tuesday to be wary of possibly fraudulent text messages offering them an investment opportunity.
Three locals comprising a married couple and a second man, including the suspected kingpin, were arrested on Wednesday for cheating four local women aged between 20 to 30 out of MOP 1.43 million.
A local man has been arrested, suspected of cheating at least seven local residents out of over MOP 9 million by reselling a local department store’s cash vouchers that have couldn’t provide last year.
Three male and thirty female local residents aged between 26 and 65 have been conned by an international internet love scam ring, in which they lost around 13.7 million patacas in total.
About 400 disabled people from the mainland and Hong Kong have been cheated out of about RMB 2.7 million yuan (MOP 3.2 million), the Judiciary Police said over the weekend.
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