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Letters | Why Hong Kong needs background checks on investors
- Readers discuss suggestions that stringent checks on investors might scare them away, the need to widen pavements near beaches, and making payment on public transport more convenient for visitors
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It was interesting but also confusing to read “Stringent check on prince could have ‘offended’ other investors, sources say” (April 6).
At a time when so much is not as it seems, and technology and social media have made it extremely easy to be whoever anyone might wish to be, especially in a town where the art of the con is everywhere, there’s nothing wrong with being too careful.
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Background and additional checks are never too much when we see the various scams affecting our city. Over five years after the government tried to take action to crack down on them, cold calls are still to be reined in.
Thorough due diligence procedures could save some from unnecessary blushes and looking naive.
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Hans Ebert, Wan Chai
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