Reference To In China, a homeless man claimed to be a rich owner of a nightclub and duped a number of women into funding his high-end parties. A report published by the South China Morning Post shows that the suspect, at least in ten days, targeted a minimum of five women, the only difference being that the suspect was thirty six years old and was only known by his surname Chen.

Female Finds counterfeit “Cash Under Bed.

The scam was also revealed in August when a female customer under the alias Liu Qian reported the scam at the Putuo District police station in Shanghai. She told the officers that Chen had hired her as his local guide who would pay her 3,500 yuan to accompany him to nice restaurants and entertainment joints.

Next morning, she went home and Chen came with a black plastic bag, which seemed to have 50,000-60,000 yuan. According to him, the money was supposed to be safeguarded under her bed due to feng shui and that it would cater to all the future expenses.

However, when Liu tried to use part of the money to cover her rent, she found out that the package only contained training bank notes that were common among the bank tellers as a practice. Chen had gone out to take a call, and this gave her sufficient time to unearth the fraud.

Trace Pattern of High-End Outings by Police.

Soon, the investigators discovered that Chen had been dining at high-class restaurants, bars and hotels frequently in Shanghai and that every time she was with a different woman. The women voluntarily paid to have meals, drinks, hotel rooms, and taxis because they thought that he was rich since he had stacks of so-called cash.

When they realised that they were deceived, Chen was gone. Even the trendy clothes he wore and the newest smartphone he carried had been financed with the funds of the victims.

False Internet Agent Accounts and Piles of Training Notes.

In order to attract women, Chen made a second account and pretended as an agent in the online chat groups. He had placed advertisements on the positions of high paying companionship saying that they would get a good pay.

He had bundles of training banknotes which he would display during face to face meetings; he just put a few real notes at the top and bottom so that the stack would look genuine. He would deposit the bundle in an agreed place after giving the illusion of having wealth and promise to pay the bill after some time.

On his non-successful attempts to obtain a new victim he is said to have slept at night on park benches, and started on his hunt again–and it shows how his daily life was wholly revolving around the necessity of finding some person to deceive.

Suspect Arrested for Fraud

Police validated at least five women who had been defrauded by Chen in this way. He is now officially under arrest on fraud charges ending his multi-layered plot. The case highlights how the appearances can be so convincingly performed to affect unsuspecting people especially when enshrined with well-timed falsehoods and falsified displays of affluence.