QuickCheck: Are scammers using a police hotline number to call potential victims?


SCAMMERS keep thinking up new tactics to deceive potential victims and now appear to have taken their brazen ways up a notch.

The telephone or Macau scam, in which perpetrators impersonate law enforcement officers and accuse their targets of criminal activity, is well documented.

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