Girl goes online to ask shaman to rekindle old love, painfully deceived

Not long ago, Ms. Li (Beijing, China) broke up with her boyfriend after 8 years of dating. The broken relationship made her very depressed, she went online to search for a way to save her relationship and accidentally saw an advertisement of a website that claimed to be able to solve love problems with spirituality. According to this advertisement, many girls and boys after receiving their help were satisfied in love.

Clinging to a glimmer of hope that a broken mirror could be mended, Ms. Li spent a few thousand yuan to buy a video of a religious ceremony, the image quality of which was quite blurry. However, her relationship with the priest did not improve. Ms. Li contacted the customer service department again and was encouraged to purchase additional worship items, amulets, and blessing ritual services.

All of these were ineffective, and Ms. Li’s lover did not return. The customer service of the online service explained that Ms. Li might have eaten the meat of a spiritual animal, so the previous rituals and offerings were ineffective.

In conclusion, Ms. Li realized that she had spent 260,000 yuan (equivalent to 892 million VND) in vain. Only then did she realize that she had been scammed and reported it to the authorities.

Local police said that recently, many individuals and organizations have taken advantage of people's superstitious mentality to sell strange tools, items or ritual services at high prices. The victims who easily fall into the trap are often those who are experiencing failures or problems in life or love.

Online scams are becoming more and more common in China. A few days ago, Mr. Li in Shanghai went to the police station to report a case after his wife bought fake gold jewelry. She bought a bracelet advertised as being made of pure gold on an online second-hand goods exchange for 20,000 yuan (about 70 million VND). When she received the item, Mr. Li’s wife felt that the jewelry was too light, unlike the gold bracelet she had bought in person, so she asked her husband to report it to the police.

The police sent the bracelet for testing, which showed that its main ingredient was silver. The police launched an investigation and arrested a suspect surnamed Wang. He said that he was a chef and had recently met a goldsmith and learned jewelry making from him. When he saw the sharp increase in gold prices, Wang came up with the idea of ​​​​fraud by buying a set of bracelets from a famous brand and using the "gold-coated-silver" technique to make a similar set.

Vuong sold these bracelets on second-hand trading floors with the advertisement of "999 pure gold". When talking to customers, Vuong asked to meet and trade in cash, not through an online platform, and promised to give a further discount. After selling the fake gold bracelets to Mr. Ly's wife, Vuong was extremely happy, but unexpectedly was quickly discovered and arrested by the police.