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Knife man gets $5,000 WECHAT topup at 7-Eleven
Police are searching for a man in his 30s who threatened a convenience store staffer with a knife to top up HK$5,000 to his WeChat Pay HK account yesterday.
The man walked into a 7-Eleven on the ground floor of Mody Square in Tsim Sha Tsui East at around midnight yesterday and flashed a 20-centimeter knife at 58-year-old female staffer, Cheng.
He ordered her to add HK$10,000 to his WeChat Pay HK mobile app without paying.
Seeing Cheng panic and failing to make the transaction go through after several attempts, he became impatient, settled for a HK$5,000 top-up and fled.
Police later asked the driver of a seven-seater parked outside about the robbery and cordoned off the area, but could not find the man.
A Wechat Pay HK spokesman said there is a strict risk management system for the e-payment platform. For accounts with balances of more than HK$3,000, the user is required to undergo multiple forms of identity verification.
He said checks will be conducted on suspicious transactions and it will cooperate with police investigations.
He ordered her to add HK$10,000 to his WeChat Pay HK mobile app without paying.
Seeing Cheng panic and failing to make the transaction go through after several attempts, he became impatient, settled for a HK$5,000 top-up and fled.
Police later asked the driver of a seven-seater parked outside about the robbery and cordoned off the area, but could not find the man.
A Wechat Pay HK spokesman said there is a strict risk management system for the e-payment platform. For accounts with balances of more than HK$3,000, the user is required to undergo multiple forms of identity verification.
He said checks will be conducted on suspicious transactions and it will cooperate with police investigations.
