Sydney police issue warning over blessing scams targeting Asian community


SYDNEY: Sydney police have issued a warning over spiritual blessing scams deliberately targeting the city's Asian community following an arrest on Thursday (July 3), reported Xinhua.

The police force in the Australian state of New South Wales said on Friday that a strike force established in April to investigate spiritual blessing scams carried out across Sydney since July 2023 arrested a 63-year-old woman at the Sydney International Airport on Thursday.

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