The police have recently received two cases of large-value fraud involving investment and impersonating officials respectively, and the victims are professionals with high academic qualifications.

It is understood that at the end of last year, the fraudster contacted one of the 60-year-old victims through the website "LinkedIn", who claimed to be an investment expert, and they then switched to chatting on a cell phone instant messaging software. The victim then downloaded the fake investment application "Eikrt.me" and invested in the cryptocurrency USDT. Early last month, the victim transferred a total of $800,000 twice to the bank account provided by the fraudster to top up the investment account and successfully withdrew HK$303,900 in investment proceeds. The victim was not aware of the fraud, believed the investment program was genuine and continued to invest, transferring a total of about HK$9 million to more than 10 bank accounts provided by the fraudster. By the 22nd of this month, the victim was unable to retrieve the funds from the application and could not contact the fraudster, so he reported the case to the police.

Separately, a 53-year-old accountant received a call in November last year from a person claiming to be a national security officer from the Mainland, accusing the victim of violating national security by sending seditious messages about nuclear sewage treatment in Japan. The victim denied the allegation and the caller transferred the call to two other people who continued the conversation, claiming that further investigation was needed. The victim was instructed to purchase a new cell phone and download a cell phone instant messaging software to communicate with the victim, who was later accused of being involved in an international financial fraud case and claimed that the victim would be required to provide a guarantee during the investigation.

The victim was instructed to open two bank accounts and transfer a total of more than $4.4 million to the two accounts by check, while providing the fraudster with two bank account numbers and passwords. The victim then transferred approximately HK$400,000 to a bank account claiming to belong to a mainland prosecutor as a guarantee to prove his innocence. The victim later found that all the messages on his cell phone had been deleted and the two bank accounts had been blocked, so he reported the case to the police.

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