The mainland university student became suspicious herself and reported the case to the Tsim Sha Tsui police station.A university student who was travelling home from Germany to China has surrendered to Hong Kong police in relation to a phone scam, foiling fraudsters’ plan to con an elderly local woman out of HK$6 million , the Post has learned.
“To prove her innocence, she was asked to impersonate a mainland public security agent and help to investigate another money-laundering case,” a source on Friday said. According to police, the victim, who lives alone, was expecting the student to arrive. The elderly woman had received a call on the same day from a fraudster impersonating a mainland police officer who accused her of being involved in a money-laundering case and told her that a mainland “spy” would come to investigate.
The source said the investigation showed the 35-year-old woman, a local resident, was recruited by fraudsters and had allegedly taken the victim to a nearby bank to transfer HK$200,000 to another account via an automated teller machine before officers arrived.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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