A man from the mainland has been arrested for selling a fake smartphone, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said yesterday at a regular press conference.
The suspect surnamed Li is in his forties. He told the police he’s jobless.
According to Wong, the police received a report on Wednesday from a local man saying that earlier that day that he had been defrauded by Li who sold him a counterfeit smartphone. The victim said Li had told him that he was in need of cash and offered to sell him a brand-new phone, which he claimed to have bought the day before, for just 8,000 patacas.
The victim later discovered that the smartphone was bogus as it was not functioning normally. He reported the case to the police who took the phone to a telecommunications store for examination and confirmed that it was a counterfeit product.
Li was arrested in Rua do Visconde Paço de Arcos the next day, and a total of three fake smartphones were seized from him. Li told the police that he bought four fake smartphones in Shenzhen for 680 yuan (760 patacas) each, and claimed that he sold one of them to the victim for 4,000 patacas after gambling away all his money.
Li has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a fraud charge, according to Wong.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) shows evidence seized from the suspect such as banknotes and the three fake smartphones.
