A lady in Hong Kong who owned a number of properties has misplaced HK$10 million (US$1.3 million) after being scammed by a fraudster posing as a potential tenant.
The police force revealed on Friday that the 64-year-old retiree, whose properties consisted of residential, business and parking areas, was contacted through WhatsApp by a scammer in Could in response to a rental itemizing she posted on Fb.
Police stated that whereas no tenancy settlement was signed, the con artist struck up a friendship with the lady and claimed they may educate her learn how to spend money on cryptocurrency, framing it as “the following alternative to get wealthy”.
The scammer gave the sufferer step-by-step directions on learn how to arrange a cryptocurrency pockets, however tricked her into revealing her pockets particulars and password, earlier than persuading her to take a position giant sums of cash.
The girl then spent about HK$10 million on cryptocurrencies, which the scammer then transferred out of her digital pockets.
She solely realised the deception when she found her cryptocurrency pockets was empty.
