2022-02-10

10th February 2022 - (Hong Kong) At around 4.30pm today (10th), a female person in charge of "Gold Town" money changer at No. 10 Peking Road surnamed Lee (36 years old) reported to police that a man claimed that he wanted to exchange RMB180,000 into Hong Kong dollars and he would transfer first about RMB100,000 into the money changer's bank account. However, after Lee deposited about HK$120,000 into a bank account designated by the other party as instructed, she found that her company account had not received the relevant RMB fund, and she was suspected of being deceived.

Police arrived at the scene and, after preliminary investigation, classified the case as obtaining property by deception and handed it over to the Yau Tsim Police District Criminal Investigation Team for follow-up. No arrests have been made so far.

Meanwhile, there was also a money changer located on the ground floor of No. 37 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, who was defrauded by the same method, and lost about 400,000 Hong Kong dollars. The police will investigate whether the two cases were committed by the same syndicate.

Source: Dimsum Daily