‘Your wife is a scammer’: Chinese man thinks spouse victim of scam after finding 300 credit cards, alerts police and discovers US$1.2 million ill-gotten gains
- A woman in China impersonated an official to trick unwitting victims into providing bank details she then used to defraud them
- The scam dates back to 2016 and saw 28 people conned out of US$1.2 million before the crime unravelled
A woman in China who defrauded 8 million yuan (US$1.2 million) with more than 300 credit cards linked to 28 people has gained national notoriety after news of her blatant crimes went viral on social media.
The woman, surnamed Li, from Sichuan province in southwestern China, was only caught after her husband mistakenly thought she was the victim of a scam when he discovered multiple credit card statements involving large transactions, Star Video reported.
Instead, it emerged she was the culprit in a trail of fraud that dated back to 2016.
In December last year, the woman’s husband discovered that his wife had a large number of credit cards. The huge cash flows shown on the statements led him to suspect his wife had fallen for a scam.
Without speaking to his wife, he went to the local police.