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    WhatsApp Scams Explode: Hongkongers Bilked of HK$2.7 Million in Three Months on Facebook-owned Messaging Service

    Apr 24, 2019 11:05:02 AM

    2019-04-09

    CSO:  More than 150 Hongkongers have been bilked out of HK$2.7 million (US$340,000) in WhatsApp scams this year, with creative fraudsters devising new ways to use the popular messaging service. Police on Monday said that the amount of defrauded money was up 50 per cent from last year, even as the number of WhatsApp victims fell by more than 40 per cent...

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    Topics:Asia

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