Ms. from Hong Kong loses her savings in a crypto fraud (report)
Ms. from Hong Kong loses her savings in a crypto fraud (report)
A 55-year-old resident of Hong Kong has reportedly victims of an online investment fraud in cryptocurrency and has lost all of her savings worth almost $ 700,000.
Such fraud cases have recently become quite common in the region. A study estimates that investors from Hong Kong lost around $ 50 million in the first half of 2022 due to cryptosystems. According to a South China Morning Post Preserver-Spaces = "True"> Cover , the woman fell to the victim when a malefactor contacted her on Instagram in January this year. The investigation showed that they later started chatting via another messaging application. After he had won her trust, the fraudster advised her to set up an account on an unknown platform to invest with the promise of great returns in cryptocurrencies. Law enforcement officers stated that the information shared at the venue at the venue was fake at the prices of digital assets and checked by the perpetrator. "You were told that your daily interest in the amount of $ 2,500 HK would also be paid for a guaranteed profit of tens of thousands of US dollars," said the police. The victim attracted the victim to transfer 6.96 million Hong Kong dollars ($ 886,600) to 19 proven bank accounts. When the woman tried to withdraw part of her money, she was asked to pay a fee. She even tried to borrow money from her daughter before realizing that she had become the victim of a fraud. The pensioner from Hong Kong sought help from the police who classified the case as "procurement of property by deception": a crime that is punished at up to ten years in prison. However, the authorities have not yet arrested a suspect. This is not the only example of a great crypto fraud in Hong Kong this week. A 44-year-old woman called A few days ago and claimed that she separated from $ 3.1 million after investing on a dubious platform in the StableCoin Tether (USDT). Data from 2022 showed that there were more than 10,000 cyber attacks in Hong Kong between the beginning of January and late June. 798 of them were crypto-related systems that drained of investors. In comparison, such crimes made loss of $ 21 million in the first half of 2021. The police recently announced that the total number of crypto scams in China's special administrative zone rose to 2,336 by the end of 2022 (67 % more than in 2021). Law enforcement officers have processed 1,884 of the cases. . "Acquisition of property by deception"
Krypto schemes on the advance in Hong Kong