About 300 Hong Kong men seeking sex services lost nearly HK$10mil (RM5.15mil) in just six months, to swindlers posing as foreign women studying in the city, prompting police to issue a scam alert.
And according to law enforcement sources, the fraudsters behind the WeChat-based scam have hit upon a new way of collecting their gains, demanding it in bitcoin – instead of the usual online game token cards – to escape detection.
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