The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced in a statement earlier this week that fraudsters ran a post on social media pretending to be a news report from the Chinese-language Macao Daily News, falsely claiming that “in a live television broadcast, Macau Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai accidentally revealed “shocking truths” because he was unaware that the microphone was still turned on”, with the purpose of attracting netizens to click on the link that directed them to a counterfeit investment platform. The statement did not elaborate on the purportedly “shocking truths” revealed by Sam.
The police made the announcement in a statement on Monday saying that they discovered the post earlier that day.
The statement noted that the counterfeit investment platform aimed to defraud potential victims of money.
Macao Daily News is Macau’s top selling Chinese-language newspaper, which also runs online instant news.
This poster released by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Monday captures posts made by fraudsters pretending to be news reports from Macao Daily News about fake news for Sam Hou Fai.
