Camy Tam
A 40-year-old woman from the mainland reported to the police on Sunday that she had been cheated out of 70,000 yuan (86,800 patacas) in an online scam earlier that day, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a press conference on Monday.
According to Chong, the victim told the police that she recently received an online loan advertisement on her smartphone when she was in the mainland. When she visited her relatives in Macau on Sunday, she downloaded the loan app after which a man claiming to be a customer service staff member contacted her. He told her that her bank card had been frozen due to an operation error when she filled in her bank card details.
He also told her that she was required to pay 10,000 yuan in order to unfreeze her card. The victim transferred 10,000 yuan from her mainland bank account to an account provided by the scammer. Afterwards the “customer service staff” contacted her again and asked her to pay 60,000 yuan in order to unfreeze her bank card. The victim transferred the money in three transactions on the same day. She finally suspected that she had been defrauded and decided to report the case to the police, Chong said.
