A finance postgraduate in Hong Kong has lost more than HK$1 million (US$128,652) in a phone scam, the Post has learned, as police reveal they have received over 1,700 reports involving university students so far this year, with losses reaching HK$180 million.
A police source said on Wednesday that the victim, a mainland Chinese student in his first year of a Master of Finance programme at Polytechnic University (PolyU), was duped on August 20.
“Recently, a university student let down his guard…