The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to recent fraud cases where victims were informed by fraudsters, who claimed to be an HKMA staff, by phone (sometimes with caller display showing the numbers "085228788196"), that they have won a lottery and would be paid a large sum of money. They were told to deposit an advance fee into a designated bank account before the lottery money would be remitted from the HKMA.
The HKMA wishes to inform the public that the HKMA has no connection with the fraudulent phone calls. The HKMA has already reported the cases to the Hong Kong Police Force for investigation.
Anyone who receives fraudulent phone calls of this kind is advised to contact the Commercial Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force (telephone number: 2860 5012).
For further enquiries, please contact:
Thomas Chan, Senior Manager (Press), at 2878 1480 or
Hing-Fung Wong, Officer (Press), at 2878 1802
Hong Kong Monetary Authority
20 August 2007