A 19-year-old local male victim has allegedly fallen into a trap and lost HKD29,111 in the hopes of purchasing Covid-19 medicines, the Judiciary Police (PJ) disclosed yesterday.
The PJ had no information as to what type of Covid-19 medicines the victim attempted to purchase. According to various sources, Pfizer’s Paxlovid is sold per course of treatment for USD500 to 700 at wholesale price, which equates to approximately MOP4,000 to 5,600.
According to the police statement, on January 4, the victim saw that a shopping website was selling Covid-19 medicines. He managed to get in touch with a staff member of a company which claimed to be selling the medicines.
After some communications, he decided to purchase some of these medicines from the company. He was told to settle the amount through an online payment intermediary platform, using his credit cards.
He told the police that between January 4 and 7, he made six purchases from the company to the value of HKD20,000.
On January 11, the company told the victim that some of the medicines he ordered would be delivered to Macau on the same day. However, at the end of the day, the medicines had not arrived.
Worse still, that the company staffer told the victim that due to certain delivery complications, he had to pay an additional HKD6,000 to have the medicine delievered. He made the extra payment through the same platform.
Without seeing his order delivered, he checked the status of his parcel with the waybill number he…
