Coronavirus: con artists swindle thousands of Hongkongers in face mask scams totalling HK$48 million

Coronavirus con artists scammed a Hong Kong clinic out of HK$20 million (US$2.6 million) in a surgical mask fraud, police have revealed.The clinic was just one of more than 3,000 victims in the city who were caught up in online scams, which resulted in crooks swindling people out of over HK$48 million (US$6.2 million) in the first three months of this year.A local firm that runs a clinic in the city was hardest hit, after international fraudsters posing as a face mask supplier in Europe…