The Judiciary Police (PJ) urged the public yesterday in a statement to remain vigilant against an “online part time job” scam, which caused 10 residents to lose a total of 140,000 patacas earlier this month.
The statement noted that the Judiciary Police were recently informed about the scam by a number of residents who had applied for an online part-time job on a social media platform that required “employees” to click “likes” on designated websites.
After clicking “likes”, the victims were asked to log into their MPay account to withdraw the “commission” they had purportedly earned, during which fraudsters obtained their MPay account ID, login password and transaction password through the website, and then removed all the money from their accounts, the statement said.
Only recently the victims realised that they could not log into their MPay account but that it had been logged into by an unknown person, who had then withdrawn all the money, after which the victims separately reported the situation to the police, the statement said.
The statement underlined that it was a scam, in which fraudsters use the terms such as “instant payment” and “legal and safe” to attract residents to apply for the job, only for them to subsequently lose their money.
Since there have been a number of recent cases in Macau involving this kind of scam, in which the victims lost money, the Judiciary Police urged residents to be wary of online job scams, especially for young people looking for part-time jobs during the summer holidays, the statement said.
The statement urged members of the public to contact the Judiciary Police’s anti-scam hotline on 8800 7777 or the crime report hotline on 993 if receiving suspicious calls or having been defrauded, regardless of whether they have suffered any financial losses.
This poster provided by the Judiciary Police (PJ) warns residents about the recent “online part time job” scam.
