Why are so many Hong Kong women still falling for online romance scams?
International fraudsters continue to fleece lonely hearts in the city through dating scams, and the numbers are surging despite public awareness
Why are Hong Kong’s lonely hearts, especially single women looking for love online, such easy pickings for romance scammers?
I would assume that every adult in this city is surely aware of these rackets that have been breaking hearts and draining bank accounts for decades, and yet the steady supply of victims is actually surging.
They keep falling for dirty, rotten scoundrels who strike up romantic liaisons with them over the internet and ultimately persuade them to part with their money on the pretext of some financial emergency.
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One victim, a senior executive at a local company, lost a whopping HK$6 million to a con artist pretending to be a British engineer whom she met on a dating platform online.