CRIME | Mainland workers pay over RMB300,000 for fake job recommendations

The Judiciary Police arrested a cargo delivery driver last week after 41 foreign workers from the mainland fell for his false job recommendations that earned him over RMB300,000 in total.
According to the local authorities, the 45-year-old suspect worked for a local freight delivery company in the Inner Harbor. In April, pretending to be a manager of a large-scale beverage company, he approached a group of restaurant workers, promising jobs for them at other companies with all related procedures done properly.
The workers, together with other acquaintances and together totaling 29 persons, paid RMB 246,500 to the suspect in the hope of working at the companies, which he claimed have close affiliations to the executives working there.
Months later without having the promise realized, the group contacted the police, which later caught the driver at his workplace. Later on, the investigators realized that he was connected to another two similar hoaxes, which happened in March and August of this year.
The two examples of deception, with 12 mainlanders involved, were said to have earned the suspect RMB76,000 in total. An investigation is underway to find other possible accomplices in the scams following the suspect’s claim that he has another accomplice.