The 40-year-old man was one of the holders of bank accounts that were used to collect the money from 103 victims between Jan 27 and Feb 7. Gang advertised on Facebook promising to sell pack of Japan-made masks for HK$55, when the same was being sold in market for HK$500. — SCMP
Hong Kong police have arrested a suspected member of a fraud syndicate that posed as a seller of surgical masks and duped more than 100 online shoppers out of HK$950,000 (RM538,331) in less than two weeks.
The 40-year-old man was one of the holders of bank accounts used to collect the money from 103 victims between Jan 27 and Feb 7, Senior Inspector Chan Man-ho said on Wednesday.
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