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Golden Finance reported that a businessman engaged in cryptocurrency trading was suspected of being defrauded of USD worth 4 million Hong Kong dollars, 1 man and 1 woman were arrested and are being detained by the police for investigation. According to the police, the victim reported yesterday that he had earlier contacted a person who claimed to be the person in charge of a cryptocurrency money changer through social platforms, claiming that he could cash out USD. The victim went to a shop in Union Square in Mong Kok at noon yesterday to make a transaction, when a Chinese man claiming to be a shop assistant showed the victim four stacks of $1,000 banknotes wrapped in plastic wrap, and the victim then transferred 4 million worth of Tate to a virtual currency wallet, but the clerk refused to hand over the cash to the victim under different pretexts, including not receiving instructions from his boss.
After the police arrived at the scene, they found that most of them were suspected banknotes printed with the words "practice vouchers", and a total of 4,000 suspected banknotes, as well as 8 genuine HK$1,000 banknotes, and a money counting machine, a 27-year-old man who claimed to be unemployed was arrested on suspicion of fraudulently obtaining property and possessing counterfeit banknotes. A 37-year-old woman who claimed to be a fashion salesperson was arrested in Sham Shui Po District this afternoon on suspicion of obtaining property by deception, who was responsible for renting the shop in question.
The police said that the money changer has no company registration or business registration, and only started renting it two weeks ago, and the investigation is continuing, and it is not ruled out that more people will be arrested.