HONG KONG The ominous phone calls began last summer.
The callers said they were investigators from mainland China. The wealthy 90-year-old Hong Kong woman on the other end was led to believe that she was the subject of a money-laundering investigation. Perhaps driven by an urge to clear her name, she began transferring huge amounts of money to bank accounts she did not own.
In the end, according to the Hong Kong police, the unidentified woman deposited a staggering sum $32.8 million into accounts controlled by grifters, in one of the worst phone scams to hit the Asian financial hub in recent memory.
Phone scammers talked her into handing over $33 million
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Phone scammers talked her into handing over $33 million
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