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The largest amount cheated in a single case in the first six months of this year was $958,000. It is the second-largest amount cheated from victims, the first being investment scams at $22.3 million. Victims lost a total of $15 million, up from $340,000 in the same period last year. In the first half of this year, there were 317 cases of tech support scams reported to the police, more than 10 times the 30 cases in the same period last year. The beneficiary had withdrawn $33,000 to pay his glove supplier and had no idea that the money was from the victim of a scam. Mr Kit added that the scammers had contacted the beneficiary, who is a businessman, and gave the excuse of buying surgical gloves from him to deposit $35,000 into his account.
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The remaining $2,000 had been frozen in the beneficiary's bank account and the police obtained a court order to return the money to Lyena. My colleague and I went down to his address immediately and were able to recover $33,000 in cash," Mr Kit said. "We got hold of the particulars of the beneficiary who had received $35,000 from Lyena's bank account.
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Mr Alan Kit, senior investigation officer at the Commercial Affairs Department, said the police immediately contacted the banks to freeze the accounts when Lyena filed the report. Related Story Interactive: How a love scammer’s 3-month ruse to swindle $165k got exposed