A 63-year-old Hong Kong investment manager has lost $1.5 million in family inheritance after being lured by a supposed female crypto investing expert into investing his money into a scam crypto trading site.
This kind of widely reported scam is known as ການຂ້າໝູ. Victims are slowly groomed towards investing their money into various fake trading sites run by scammers.
In this case, a Hong Kong manager began to develop a relationship with a female crypto trader, who police ອະທິບາຍ as an “online lover.” They first became Facebook friends in mid-December before eventually messaging each other on WhatsApp roughly two weeks later.
Source: https://protos.com/hong-kong-investment-manager-loses-1-5m-inheritance-in-crypto-scam/