2 foreigners held for telecom fraud
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POLICE in China have arrested two African men and issued an international arrest warrant for another for swindling a Chinese man of nearly 2.18 million yuan (US$356,628.71) in another case of telecom scam.
The fraud came to light after a Zhumadian native, surnamed Xiao, in central China’s Henan Province filed a report with the police on September 18, local Dahe Daily reported yesterday.
The foreigner with online identity “Tropple,” befriended Xiao on a chatting forum in August. Tropple claimed to be an American woman serving with The United Nations peacekeeping forces in Congo.
Two other African men were also part of the scam. The trio pretended to be beauties on chatting forums and targeted vulnerable Chinese men, police said.
The two, who helped the “fake beauty Tropple” by encashing the money in Chinese mainland, are now in police custody, the paper reported.
Xiao never used video during chatting in English but “exchanged” pictures of each other. Xiao fell for “her pictures” in UN uniform.
During one of their chats, Tropple told Xiao that “she” met an orphan in a refugee camp whose father had died and left her with US$4.5 million in a bag. If the bag could be sent across to China, they could share the money, Tropple said.
Xiao agreed to the deal and was told to pay for the transportation fees first. He remitted US$101,717.4 into Tropple’s bank account in 11 times. He was then told that the bag had arrived at the costal province of Guangdong, and could collect it after transferring nearly 1.5 million yuan into two bank accounts.
Xiao realized he was cheated after Tropple went missing after he transferred the money. He reported the matter to the police.
Bank records showed that the money had been drawn by two foreign men in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, and in southern city of Shenzhen.
On October 28, police caught the two foreigners in a residential apartment in Shenyang. Their passports also turned out to be fakes.
Police are still investigating the case further.
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