Back Scmp Hong Kong police arrest 2 men allegedly linked to HK$500000 phishing scam
Officers find 110 SIM cards and modem pool in hotel room allegedly used to send more than 2,000 scam texts undelivered parcels and insurance fees
Hong Kong police have arrested two men suspected of using 110 SIM cards to send phishing messages from a base of operations in a hotel and conning victims out of more than HK$500,000 (US$63,766).
The force said on Saturday the men, aged 31 and 44, were arrested last Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud.
After victims called the hotline, the fraudsters instructed them to transfer money to designated bank accounts using various pretexts, police said.
“Investigation revealed that the suspects had bought a bulk of SIM cards with real name registration from different people,” Inspector Kwan Yat-hei of the fraud division under the force’s commercial crime bureau said.
He added that the suspects had rented a hotel room as an operations centre, where officers found a modem pool – a device that allows users to control multiple SIM cards simultaneously – nine mobile phones and 110 SIM cards.
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