The scammers groom targets for weeks before cajoling them into ploughing money into fake investment platforms and other ruses.
She is among a growing number of Chinese people lured into handing over large sums of cash by scammers posing as potential love interests.
With similar interests, Lin seemed to be “just my type”, Huang said under a pseudonym to keep friends and family from finding out that she had been scammed. At Lin’s urging, Huang first put 50,000 yuan into a fake investment platform – but after she went cold on the scheme, Lin changed tact. She said Lin made her “feel so guilty” about not helping him that she began taking out exorbitant loans to support him.
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