Finance student loses HK$1 million as Hong Kong police record 1,700 campus scams

A postgraduate finance student in Hong Kong has lost more than HK$1 million (US$128,652) in a phone scam, the Post has learned, as police revealed they had received over 1,700 reports involving university attendees so far this year, with HK$180 million in losses. 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 swindled on August 20. “Recently, a university student let down his...