Worthless: Would-be couriers discovered there was no one to take delivery of the "high value" goods such as this motherboard and packs of crisps.

The Hong Kong Police and Shenzhen Public Security Bureau have jointly shut down a deception ring and arrested three Mainland men.

Since December, 2007, Hong Kong Police had received 110 reports of people who had been deceived after they responded to ads in Hong Kong newspapers that offered payments of $480 to $550 for Hong Kong people to bring goods back from Shenzhen.