The Judiciary Police (PJ) received reports of four WeChat scams involving money transfers through WeChat Red Packets last weekend.
Last Saturday and Sunday, several local residents reported to the police that their WeChat payment accounts had been hacked. All of the residents’ WeChat friends or relatives had received messages sent from their WeChat accounts, saying that they were in need of money. None of the individuals themselves reported financial losses, although some of their friends or relatives lost hundreds of Macau patacas in the process.
Losses across the four cases amounted to around MOP1,000.
One of the users’ WeChat payment accounts was still inaccessible by normal login at the time of the press conference.
The remaining victims have already regained access to their accounts.
At yesterday’s press conference, the PJ advised members of the public to ask friends or relatives whether they had received similar fraudulent requests for fund transfers.
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