The platform is designed to help educate the public about cyber crimes in the Metaverse, especially those involving virtual assets.
May 29, 2023Authorities are also considering co-locating bank staff at the ADCC, as this has helped to reduce stop payment response times and enhance loss recoveries in other jurisdictions like Singapore.
April 27, 2023Four of the individuals are alleged to have conspired with some of the individuals who were charged last September to use nominee accounts to corner the shares of two target stocks.
April 6, 2023Financial losses from crypto-related scams accounted for more than half of the total value lost through technology crime last year, police say.
March 9, 2023The suspects allegedly used different social media platforms to manipulate the trading in the shares of two Hong Kong-listed companies.
October 4, 2022Online banking, electronic payment services and cryptocurrency wallets have made it more difficult to recover scam proceeds.
January 27, 2022More than 10,000 bank accounts are believed to have been used in 2020 to collect and launder the funds before being channelled out of Hong Kong.
February 22, 2021One of the SFC’s top priorities for the year is to crack down on ramp and dump scams and other types of market manipulation conducted through social media.
February 11, 2021