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Woman pays a dear price for being naive

A woman was so gullible that she believed a man who switched between an army colonel and a 300-year-old fortune teller in disguise, not only bearing him a daughter but also giving him 335,000 yuan, a Beijing newspaper said today.

Wang Xiaohui, 30, founded a security company in Beijing in 2010 and recruited Yang Wenchen and his friend Niu Jie. Both men just quitted their back-breaking, low-paying jobs in a construction site.

Seeing their boss was an innocent and pretty woman, Yang decided to date her. He and Niu invited her out to dinner and wore army uniforms on purpose. Niu told Wang that Yang was actually a colonel and the son of a central government leader. He took her job offer to "experience the life of ordinary people," the Procuratorial Daily said.

Wang then fell in love with Yang and had sex with him in September 2010. To convince her, Yang spent 200 yuan on a fabricated officer certificate. He also spent 200 yuan to buy a fake marriage certificate for them.

In September 2010, Wang closed her company and followed the two men to Henan Province. To persuade her to open a restaurant, Yang downloaded a voice changing application to his mobile phone and called Wang as a 300-year-old fortune teller in disguise. Wang believed his "advice."

But the restaurant lost money and the trio went back to Beijing in March 2011. Yang played the same trick again and pretended to be the colonel's mother in a phone call to comfort Wang, the paper said.

Wang went to her hometown in Henan five months later to deliver the baby. Her sister came to help and suspected Yang was lying.

After Wang gave birth to a girl in September 2011, her sister checked Yang's identity in the public security bureau and found he was a cheater. The sisters reported to police one month later, the paper said.

Police found Yang had cheated several women before and was jailed four times on charges of fraud, from 18 months to six years and a half.

Last month Yang was sentenced to nine years in prison for fraud, the paper said.



 

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