Hong Kong police are warning about con artists who target university students seeking summer internships. The scammers use bogus orientation sessions to trick victims into giving up large sums of money.

English-speaking con artists have targeted university students seeking summer internships, using a bogus 40-minute orientation session to make their dubious job offers appear genuine, Hong Kong police have warned. The force issued the alert after a 19-year-old university first-year student fell for a dubious job offer last month and lost nearly HK$190,000, saying the scammers had prepared detailed scripts to deceive her and conducted the fraudulent recruitment process in English. The force’s...