Man bilked in e-mail con, court told, South China Morning Post, 18 Mar 2005

“A Chinese-American engineer was swindled out of $1.2 million in the so-called Nigerian e-mail scam last year, the District Court heard yesterday. It is believed to be Hong Kong's first prosecution of such a fraud in which the victim lost money.�

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