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Former security secretary Regina Ip duped by email scam, loses USD $65,000 from Swiss bank account
Nope, you’re not reading the Onion. Regina Ip, a lawmaker and the former secretary for security, admitted she got tricked by one of the oldest email scams in the book, leading to USD65,000 (HKD504,000) getting transferred out of a bank account in Switzerland. It's a mistake that might elicit some degree of empathy if she were someone's elderly grandmother, but not so much if she was at one point the top dog in charge of crime – including cybersecurity – for the city.
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Scary stuff here..I've seen spam so much over the years, I don't see how anyone could fall for it.