The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced yesterday two more “guess who I am” phone scams, in which a Hong Kong man and a mainland man purporting to be the victims’ “grandsons” cheated two local elderly women out of a total of 150,000 patacas, PJ spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday.
The two victims have reported their separate losses of 30,000 patacas and 120,000 patacas respectively to the Judiciary Police recently.
The two victims said that they had received calls from their “grandsons” who, in both cases, told them that they had injured someone and were required to pay “bail”, and the scammers told the victims that a “lawyer” would go to their home to collect the money, according to the spokesperson.
After the Judiciary Police had received the reports from the two victims they arrested a man from Hong Kong, 28, surnamed Wong, who was pretending to be a “lawyer” when he collected the money on Wednesday. Later that day a 28-year-old mainland man was arrested in a residential unit in Taipa, whose job was it to receive the money from Wong.
PJ officers seized about HK$7,000 from both, and are investigating if it is part of the money paid by the two victims.
Chan said that the Judiciary Police yesterday transferred the two male suspects to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) for further investigation, facing charges of organised crimes, fraud involving a considerably large sum of money, and money laundering.
This undated handout photo provided by the Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday shows cash in Hong Kong dollars and patacas and two phones seized from the two suspects.
