Urgent.News

600+ sources. One page. See who else covered it.

Editions

World

Hong Kong police arrest 8 over HK$6.2 million ‘sugar baby’ dating scam

Hong Kong police have arrested eight people over an alleged compensated-dating scam syndicate that cheated victims, including teachers and healthcare workers, out of about HK$6.2 million (US$790,000) by telling them they had to pay a “legal fee” to formalise contracts to become “sugar babies”. Police said on Monday that they had investigated 80 cases involving scammers who used compensated dating…

Hong Kong police arrest 8 over HK$6.2 million ‘sugar baby’ dating scam

We haven't written up this one. South China Morning Post has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at scmp.com →

More in World

More from Monday 10 August →