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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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August 1, 2007
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Crime
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2 jailed for fraud
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Hong Kong Police

Two men aged 30 and 26 have been jailed by the District Court for up to four years and eight months for conspiracy to defraud.

 

A 44-year-old woman applied for an office assistant's job and started working in a company in Wong Tai Sin in June 2005. She later came across the two defendants who claimed they were the company's sales representatives and duped her into purchasing a diamond bracelet and reselling it to a designated customer at a profit.

 

They further lured the victim to buy four more bracelets for $15,700 from July 9 to 11 that year. She was suddenly sacked the following day.

 

Police arrested the two men the same month and jointly charged them with one count of conspiracy to defraud.