My wife who is fluent in Mandarin received a WhatsApp call today from a China con gang. She ignorantly believed it was the mainland police and that they have power despite ourselves residing in Hong Kong. The "mainland police man" said that she had used the courier service SF to send illegal counterfeit ID's. She admitted she is a regular user of SF, but this had nothing to do with her. "Mainland police" then said it must be someone close and that he would pass the line to "mainland police" man who would deal with it. He had used a non diallable HK mobile number, the line was then passed to a mainland number, +86, where another "mainland police man" dealt with it.



They spoke authoritatively. I only knew she was having a conversation with them in the last 30minutes of an ~ 1 hour conversation, where she had foolishly gave them our home address, bank account numbers held and the amount of money in them. One has over a couple million HKD as we just sold a property. I recorded the last 30 minutes of the conversation. When she told me the situation, I messaged back the "mainland police" man telling him what he was, a con man. They messaged back my wife, threatening that we best be careful as they know where we live and have children. About an hour later messaged again, offensive remarks about my wife's attractive looks. Do you think I should reply to tell them police have been reported and we got a recording of their illegal actions? Have their been cases similar to this and is there a need to go to the HK police to report?