while MyCoin claimed to have 3,000 (!!!) customers (each of them investing an average of one million dollars) (a Legislative Council) had received more than 15 complaints (!!!) from MyCoin clients regarding the allegations and that these would be passed on to the police on Wednesday.
How come there's only over 15 complaints, where 3000 customers were scammed for one million each, on average?
The reports I have read say 30 people went to talk to a
local councillor (politician); not the police or the courts, because, according to the paper, they thought that the police would not take up their case given that they had no proof of their investment. If that is correct, there are quite likely more than 30 victims. 3000 victims is not at all unlikely for a ponzi scheme in a fairly wealthy city of 7 million. (Here we recently had an MLM scheme which scammed tens of millions of victims.)
The estimated average amount per victim is 1 milllion
Hong Kong dollars (HKD, HK$) which is about 128'000 US dollars. Since each cloud mining contract was 52'000 USD, and the newspaper names a couple of victims who bought multiple (up to eight) contracts, that amount does not seem excessive at all.