An 18-year-old female student from the mainland enrolled in a local university has lost 3.6 million yuan (4.2 million patacas) in a phone scam in which she was conned into believing that she was connected to a money laundering case, the Judiciary Police (PJ) announced said yesterday.
Addressing a press conference, a PJ spokesperson said that the victim received a phone call on Saturday from a courier company telling her that a parcel she had posted to Beijing – allegedly – containing counterfeit identity documents had been intercepted by the Public Security Bureau on the mainland.
According to the spokesman, the call was then purportedly diverted to the “Beijing Public Security Bureau” where a female “police officer” told the victim that her bank account on the mainland was involved in money laundering activities, after which the call was diverted to a “division chief” who told the victim not to tell anybody about the case otherwise she would be accused of leaking confidential information.
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