Two Chinese women pay through their nose for ‘cancer treatment’ on a trip to Thailand
‘Doctors’ make them cough up 399,000 yuan each for a single injection to cure their disease
Two women – identified as Chen and Xu – from Ningbo in China’s eastern coastal province of Zhejiang were duped 399,000 (HK$473,500) yuan each for “cancer treatment” in Thailand, according to a report in Thepaper.cn.
The women were diagnosed with cancer during the trip, organised by a beauty salon, and were told to receive immediate medical attention.
Soon, they were taken to a lavish hotel and administered a single shot, each of which cost 399,000 yuan. Their credit cards exceeded the maximum limits pay the bill. When they returned to Ningbo a few days later, they realised the treatment was a con job because there were no symptoms of cancer.
“We were badly cheated,” Chen told Thepaper.cn in an interview,