The special anti-fraud unit of the Hong Kong police halted HK$700mil (RM370.28mil) worth of payments to local and international fraudsters using Internet and phone scams in the first three months of this year.
Chan Kwok-wai, the senior inspector of the Anti-Deception Coordination Centre, said on Wednesday the number of phone fraud cases the special unit had successfully solved rose 76% to 125 in the first quarter of 2019 from 71 in the same period last year.
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