Hong Kong Clearing Warns of Virtual Wallet Scam: Fake Website Tricks Users into Providing Bank Account Information

Odaily: Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited has disclosed the discovery of a fraudulent website impersonating its official site, which lures users into making deposits and withdrawals through virtual wallets and claims to offer Faster Payment System (FPS) online transaction security support, including refunds, reporting unauthorized online transactions, and transaction support. Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited emphasizes that under normal circumstances, it does not directly provide FPS services to individual members of the public, nor does it proactively contact individual members of the public, and warns the public not to provide personal or bank information to the relevant website. (Hong Kong SAR Government Press Release)