Police set up search engine in fight against scams – RTHK – RTHK

Police said they have launched a new search engine to help the public detect scams after a surge in fraud cases.

Officers said they’d recorded 14,160 technology-related crime cases in the first eight months of this year – 40 percent up from the same period last year – while phone scams nearly doubled.

“Because of the digitalised era, the scammers make good use of technology to commit crime. For telephone deceptions, I believe that during the Covid pandemic, the scammers disguise to be government officials like the Department of Health to deceive (people),” said Wilson Fan, a superintendent from the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau.

In view of this, he said the police have set up a search engine called “Scameter”, where people can search for information such as names and phone numbers when they receive suspicious calls or unsolicited messages.

It will tell people the level of risks by showing different colours, with red indicating “high risk”, orange “suspected…

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