And there are still??? Oh yeah, NO VICTIMS of these, cases, only ABUSERS and, ENABLERS in these cases, the targets marked, not, let's, get 'em all, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
There's an economic article writer who'd, painted the pictures of the global economy, told that it's in complete, chaos right now, with the gray/black swans, flying all over the places, that things can skyrocket and fall too quickly. Of course, this is, alarming, but, what's more was, another made-up, yet, quite real scene, the photos of a row of fishing poles, and catching the fish one by one.
The poles are a metaphor of the online scams in Hong Kong, the police called these cases as, "fishing scams". The phishing scams are the trojan horse viruses in the link attachment from the scam emails, as the "fisher" click opened the email; the many kinds of scams, caught the account owners in the nets. The word phishing is very similar to fishing, and it's, crazy too. The most recent bulletin from the Hong Kong Police Department, the phishing scams of the first season in Hong Kong is as high as 1,400 cases, and, the total amount lost to these scams, were up more than $26 million Hong Kong dollars.
If there's a fishing pole and a hook then, there would be, fishes that bite, the easily fooled is noted as "fish out of water" by the people in Hong Kong, and, "fish out of water" is the name for turtles, because as turtles were caught out of water, its chubby body would start squiggling, like it's, rich, and it'd, still, bitten onto the hook and bait, refusing to, let go. The "phishing scams" increased quite quickly in Hong Kong, showing that, there are, also, many fishes that were being, "hooked out of the waters", and that the contents of these cases are mostly, too, unimaginable, unbelievable.
and you still don't have a C-L-U-E!!! Illustration from online
Those who got hooked by these "phishing scams" are usually enticed by money, or by sex, of them, the "love affairs online", are the most, prevalent sort. The worst of these was a thirteen-year-old middle school boy went online to start up a love affair, and in the end, he'd met someone who'd sold for sex, demanded that this young man purchase the gaming credits as the down payment for the service that the woman was to provide. The young boy went to the super convenience store and bought a game card that's worth 768 Hong Kong dollars, and he'd gone with the requests, keyed in the serial number, then surely, the person cut off, all contacts with him. That young man was so upset, he'd had his mother come with him to the police, to call for help.
The biggest "fish" caught by these phishing scams, was an accountant, this January, the individual received a text from the telecommunications company, told that his points are about to expire, that he could trade in the points for a Bluetooth ear set, and he'd, turned over his credit card information, then, became a victim of identity theft, lost $700,000.
Most of these cases came from the scammers who'd falsified themselves as the telecommunications companies, making up seventy-three percent of all of these scams, and there were about twelve-percent that are related to the rewards plan by the falsified con artists claiming they were the wholesales enterprises, the rest are related to mail scams.
And so, despite how many cases that had already been, recorded, there are still, way too many, people who are, falling for them, and why is that??? Because we are just, way too lonely (those who were scammed by L-O-V-E!), too stupid (giving our money away to those, con artists), or, we just wanted, the cheap costs of things (the opportunists)…either way you are getting scammed, because you are, easy targets, and, what made you into, easy targets??? You go and figure that, out!
