Local loses 103,200 patacas in online sex scam

Potential chief executive (CE) candidate Sam Hou Fai has started to contact the different sectors of the 400 members of the Chief Executive Election Committee to listen to their views and try to obtain their nomination that will enable him to stand in the upcoming election, stating yesterday that with the aim of listening more widely to the views of the community, he is open to people from all walks of life submitting their written views to his election campaign office via different channels

A local woman in her forties and her daughter in her twenties fell victim to a “fake police” scam and were defrauded out of around 5,150 and 6,800 patacas respectively, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lou Chan Fai said at a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lou, the woman received a call on Tuesday from a man claiming that he was from the Judiciary Police, telling her that her mainland mobile phone number had been involved in sending 1,000 “illegal Suncity gambling”