Chinese man’s test of girlfriend’s fidelity ends with three people charged with troublemaking
- Plan backfires when ‘fidelity agent’ becomes abusive after being rejected by woman he was supposed to be investigating
- Police move in after reading woman’s social media post saying she was being trolled by an ‘internet cop’
A man’s desire to test his girlfriend’s fidelity ended in disaster last week, and left one man in custody, according to a police report.
The incident, in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Hunan province, started when the boyfriend – a 22-year-old surnamed Fu – employed the services of an online “fidelity agent”, surnamed Yang.
Concerned that his girlfriend – a 22-year-old named Song – might be unfaithful to him, Fu gave personal information about her to Yang and asked him to test the waters.
The agent then contacted Song via WeChat – China’s most popular messaging app – and tried to befriend her.
After chatting for a while, Yang asked Song to be his girlfriend. When she refused, rather than reporting his findings back to Fu, Yang took offence and began insulting the young woman.
Upset by his onslaught, Song began to question Yang about how he had found her in the first place. When she asked how he had got hold of her phone number, address and even the number on her ID card Yang claimed he was an “internet police officer” and had access to a range of information about her and her family.