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The MTR fined nearly 4,300 people for misusing the fare scheme in the nine months through February, while the Transport Department inspected buses and ferries across 650 routes.
Vigilance is needed to prevent being duped by scams, the latest involving AI -generated images and imitated voices on a video call which duped company out of HK$200 million
The number of such crimes is rising fast in Hong Kong, underlining the need for greater vigilance by authorities and the public.
Social media platforms must stay abreast of sinister technology developments that have ensnared Hong Kong leader John Lee and pop star Taylor Swift, among others.
Concern over donations to a decades-old city Christian NGO reveals the need for greater transparency from such groups.
Scandals involving virtual trading platforms, bogus sales and other fraudulent methods do nothing for Hong Kong’s reputation.
Case involving fictitious online sale of dog meat makes one thing clear: unless enforcement can stay ahead of the cybercriminals, Hong Kong’s dreams of shifting to more efficient cashless systems will keep barking up the wrong tree.
Hong Kong’s financial services watchdog rolls out security measures for the online payment system FPS. While new crime-fighting tools are welcome, diligence remains important.
- Criminals withdrew cash from stooge accounts and used it to buy virtual currencies at local over-the-counter outlets in a bid to conceal flow of money, police say
- Seven local men and a woman, aged 26 to 51, arrested in a series of raids across the city
A student from China who was lured to Thailand from Australia by a kidnap gang who threatened to force her into pornographic films, and even to sell her internal organs if her family failed to pay a ransom demand, has been found safe and well.
Police say hackers pretended to be account holders, sent messages to relatives and friends to ask for urgent financial help.
Sham article is almost identical to one debunked two weeks ago, featuring Hong Kong movie star Donnie Yen and US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
Police say more mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong falling victim, with amounts swindled often higher.
Parent company of Lukfook Jewellery says it is investigating alleged incident after being told about underground forum post selling data for more than HK$190,000.
Source familiar with situation says scammer contacted 67-year-old woman in January and claimed to be mainland Chinese police officer investigating fraud case.
A woman in China whose mother was suffering from cancer, discovered the elderly woman had spent all her money on a fake product after an influencer claimed it could cure the illness.
Su Wenqiang and Wang Baosen, both 32, are barred from re-entering Singapore, an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority spokesperson said.
A scammer in China has been jailed for operating a con known as “brushing” in which fake viewer counts, likes, comments and shares mislead consumers.
Victim previously lost HK$80,000 in common online employment fraud after a man she met online convinced her to participate in ‘click farming’ tasks in exchange for commission.
Forty-three people were trafficked to Peru and imprisoned in a bungalow, where a gang forced them to call the scam targets in Malaysia.
Card reader, false keypad and suspected wireless transmitter uncovered at a cash deposit machine in Mong Kok.
Retailer received 164 complaints from patrons, allegedly breached Trade Descriptions Ordinance, customs says.
Scammers have published a fictitious article with the appearance of a South China Morning Post story and a reporter’s byline to promote two online financial trading apps.
A 45-year-old man, Zhang Ruijin, linked to Singapore’s largest money laundering case, was sentenced to 15 months’ jail on Tuesday. The sentence is the harshest meted out so far in the US$2.2 billion case.
Commissioner of Police Raymond Siu says deception cases in city grew 0.9 per cent, with all but investment scams declining between January to March.
With the junkets of Asia’s gambling capital ‘decimated’ by an anti-corruption crackdown, money launderers have shifted focus to more loosely regulated casinos in Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines and Myanmar.
More than 450 customers complain they never received prepaid purchases of clothing, beauty and cosmetic products, food and household items.
Criminals create deceptive web pages advertising lucrative offers for doorstep collection of used clothing, but to make booking, residents must install malicious app that gathers personal data, police say.
Cybersecurity and technology crime bureau says resurgence in scams amid first quarter resulted in total losses exceeding HK$20 million.
Scammers posed as staff members and told renovation and maintenance firms they represented schools that needed work done.
While residents are knowledgeable about investing, they tend to be forgetful of advice and follow trends blindly, says Investor Financial Education Council chairman Victor Dawes.
Woman, 42, and two men, aged 48 and 60, allegedly set up five companies and 18 local bank accounts that handled more than 1,000 suspicious transactions.
Providing update on city’s largest alleged fraud, police chief Raymond Siu also says force has received 2,636 reports regarding case, with about HK$1.6 billion involved.
Bureau says real-name registration requirement effective in cutting down on number of scams in Hong Kong.
Scam operators seemingly thumb their noses at the regulator, which recently launched a campaign warning the public about financial frauds.
Despite serving 4 years in prison, McFarland recently announced a second instalment of the now-infamous event of 2017, but will it even happen?
A fake online influencer racket in China, which saw trained fake online personalities peddling bogus sob stories to attract followers and sell products, has been broken up by police.
Suspects arrested during operation ‘AttackPlan’ comprise 768 men and 353 women linked to 952 cases of deception and technology-based crimes.
