A 25-year-old con artist has been jailed for 1½ years for duping 80 Hongkongers into paying him a total of HK$120,000 (US$15,500) by falsely claiming he had surgical masks for sale in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic last year.
Kwok Tsz-hin, a former warehouse attendant, was sentenced at the District Court after he confessed to taking advantage of a citywide shortage of the protective gear to defraud buyers on an online shopping platform.
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