Hong Kong Police Launch Scam Prevention Online

First published: 12^th July 2014

The Hong Kong Police Crime Prevention Bureau has launched "Fight Scams Together", billed as a scam-prevention platform to disseminate warnings through online channels and social media. The campaign intends to optimise the use of the force’s mobile app, webpage and YouTube Channel to release new information on scams.

The mobile app is available for iOS and Android. The webpage highlights a variety of online scams, including the ubiquitous Advanced Fee Fraud, change of bank and relative in trouble email scams, naked chat blackmail, social networking traps and online gaming crime. The YouTube channel only features Chinese content, with some English subtitles and many colloquial Cantonese phrases.