In the times that touch us, relationships proliferate beyond the four dimensions that make up our reality. Thus, a couple can live a love story even without ever seeing each other. Things of the future, what has already arrived.
So, it’s not surprising (much) that a woman was “engaged” to a man for years without ever seeing him in person. And to be honest, it’s no surprise that this virtual boy doesn’t really exist beyond 1s and 0s.
This is exactly what happened in China where a woman was dating a man for 12 years he has never met in person. And that he would never see it because the man wasn’t real. It was all a hoax, a long, cunning hoax.
And the offender was none other than a friend of the woman, who during all that time he scammed his gullible girlfriend into sending him money with all kinds of excuses.
But, finally, the thing was discovered and the woman she was arrested by the Shanghai police.
a long revenge
Police have reported that it is one of the weirdest romance scams you will ever see.
The victim, a middle-aged woman, had known on social media who would be her lover for 12 long years. There, the “man” introduced himself as a well-known television journalist.
According to the researchers, “man” cheated with about 2 million yuan (about 290 thousand dollars) during that time period.
The scammer was a good friend of the victim and had done it devised the plan as revenge for something the victim’s mother had said when they were both very young.
The scammer, identified only as Ms. Yu, admitted her guilt, telling investigators that it all started 12 years ago. She and the victim, Ms. Li, they had been friends for a long time and their parents also knew each other.
One day, Li’s mother jokingly told her that she would have trouble finding a husband. because she wasn’t very pretty and his family did not have a very good economic situation.
It was a cruel thing to say to a girl, and Yuu really took it to heart. The more she thought about what the woman had said, the more she wanted revenge, so he he came up with a plan. If it was difficult for her to find love, it would also be for her friend of her Li of her.
The Chinese Count of Monte Cristo
Years after being insulted by her friend’s mother, Ms. Yu approached the same woman to brag about it make friends with a well-known television journalist who happened to be single and looking for a suitable wife.
As expected, the woman begged him to settle it with her daughter, and Yu’s plan was put into action.
The intriguing woman began to do this create fake social media profiles by the reporter and approached Ms. Li pretending to be this handsome and successful man.
She knew her friend better than anyone, her likes and dislikes, her passions, her romantic expectations, so they got along just fine. The only problem was keeping the relationship long distance.
Whenever Ms. Li asked to meet her virtual boyfriend in person, I found an excuse. He was too busy with work, on a business trip, sick, or just too tired to meet her.
But he proceeded to seduce her and declare his love for herwhich was apparently enough to keep Li’s interest.
And the requests for money came
The fraud was not originally part of Yu’s plan, but by 2018 he had fallen on hard times and was in desperate need of money. Knowing that her friend was crazy about the personality she created, began to ask him for financial help, inventing all sorts of pretexts.
Once Li made her pay once, she was caught and he continued to use his charm to bleed her dry.
Despite the financial recovery, Yu continued to ask her friend for money, begging, lying and even threatening to end the relationship whenever Li asked too many questions or seemed reluctant to drop any money.
Whenever her friend complained about the situation, she always encouraged her to do whatever it takes for love, arguing that the reporter was worth it.
An end of disappointment and prison
Earlier this year, after Li spent all of his savings and started racking up debt, things got more complicated for Yu.
Her friend reached out to help her communicate with the reporter, and finally expressed her concern. that something was wrong.
He wanted them to confront him and ask him to return all the money and despite Yu’s best efforts to dissuade her, she had made up her mind.
Feeling that his scam was finally over, Yu she told her friend everythinghow he had lied about knowing the reporter, how he had created the fake profiles and how he had scammed her for several years.
It’s unclear if she hoped her friend wouldn’t go to the police or if she just wanted to see the look on her face when she learned the truth.
Ms Yu she was arrested after her friend filed a complaintand the investigations, in this case, are still ongoing.
Source: Clarin
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