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Phone scam cons DB housewife out of HK$8.2 million
Dec 10th, 2016 at 4:13am
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I was looking for any news regarding the helicopter search last night and stumbled upon this news.

Last month, November 9, a 51 year old housewife living in Discovery Bay was conned out of HK$8.2 million after falling for a phone scam from two men pretending to be law enforcement officers.

The first man informed the housewife that she is involved in a criminal incident. The second man instructed her to open a bank account and to deposit the money in three transactions. The woman realized her mistake after finding out the money was gone. Police are treating the incident as obtaining property by deception.

There are a lot of phone scams in Hong Kong, please do not entertain any phone calls from unknown persons especially do not give out any personal details.

HKET.com (Chinese only)

一名51歲婦人,在11月9日收到一名自稱是執法人員的男子來電,聲稱女事主涉及一宗刑事案件。電話其後轉駁到另一名,同樣自稱是執法人員的男子。事主依據第二名「執法人員」的指示,於內地開設銀行
戶口,分開3次將共約820萬港元,匯款至有關戶口,再透過電話應用程式,向「執法人員」提供其戶口資料。事主其後發現該筆存款不見了,懷疑受騙,昨晚約6時在大嶼山愉景灣寓所,致電警方報案。警方派員到場調查,案件列作「以欺騙手段取得財產」,交由荃灣警區刑事調查隊跟進,暫未有人被捕。
  
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Re: Phone scam cons DB housewife out of HK$8.2 million
Reply #1 - Dec 15th, 2016 at 6:45am
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Yes and saw in DB matters that there was burglary in Seabird
  
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