A woman has claimed a beauty centre cheated her out of HK$110,000 ($20,000) with selling tactics that included telling her that warts on her neck would become contagious without treatment.
The 28-year-old victim, a teacher, visited a centre in Mong Kok in March for a skincare facial treatment and was persuaded repeatedly to sign up for other therapies.
Employees told her she must remove black spots on her neck and freckles on her faces or they would spread to other parts of her body and become infectious to others, she said.
"They told me the warts would spread through my arms by touching other people," said the woman on Tuesday, who did not want to be identified over concerns about her job.
"Since my job [involves] regular contact with children, I believed them and paid for the removal treatment."