Hong Kong and Malaysian police have busted a Kuala Lumpur-based syndicate that they say duped 48 Hong Kong women and one elderly man out of HK$29.5 million since January in online romance scams.
One victim lost HK$6 million to a con artist pretending to be a British engineer.
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