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Hong Kong phone scams triple since real-name SIM card registration required

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Hong Kong phone scams triple since real-name SIM card registration required

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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days ago

The number of phone scams in Hong Kong has tripled since a real-name SIM card registration system was implemented in 2022, despite the government’s claim that it would help crack down on frau…

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Shark Attacks are closely related to ice cream sales:

https://www.statology.org/correlation-does-not-imply-causation-examples/
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  I would love to live in a world where banning sharks would make everyone stop buying ice cream
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  Just wanted to go through the data and see if they didn’t do a statistical stunt

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