- A fashion executive in Hong Kong was duped out of more than R13.5 million in a kitten sale scam, authorities said.
- The 58-year-old was told to transfer bitcoin for delivery and insurance fees, SCMP reported.
- She sent the scammer money via 40 cryptocurrency transactions over five months, the outlet wrote.
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A fashion executive in Hong Kong who thought she was adopting a kitten from Thailand was tricked into giving scammers more than R13.5 million in Bitcoin, local authorities said on Wednesday.
The would-be cat adopter, a 58-year-old vice-president of a fashion company, believed she had contacted someone looking to give away a three-month-old kitten, The South China Morning Post reported.
She got in touch online with the unnamed person in April and continued communicating with them over WhatsApp, per the outlet.
The executive was told she…
