Such love scams have caused victims in Singapore to suffer great losses. The man made off with a total of $80,000 from her bank account.Īfter losing contact with the scammer, Huang decided to head to the bank for help and discovered that she had been deceived. With the maturation of two policies, Huang also deposited $58,539 into the bank account. The scammer managed to convince her to part with another $10,000 for a similar package.
She pressed him to return the money but was reassured that he loved her and he was not after her money. Huang started to panic after noticing the man transferring $11,934 out of the account last September. He claimed that his bank account was frozen and asked Huang to lend him $12,000 so that the package could be collected. Later on, the scammer told the woman that a package containing cash and gold bars intended for her was held up at the Singapore Customs. She even transferred over $20,000 to the account. Moved by his words, Huang started an online relationship with the man.īlinded by love, she agreed to open a new bank account and share the login details with him.
At the time, she had just started treatment for terminal stage breast cancer.Īfter chatting for some time, the scammer professed his love to her and told her he wanted to meet her in Singapore. Huang told Shin Min that she began communicating with the man last August after receiving his text message. The 71-year-old woman surnamed Huang was swindled of $80,000 by someone posing as the singer, Shin Min Daily News reported on Saturday (March 4). It turned out to be a scam that left her with both a broken heart and an empty bank account. So when someone on the Internet approached an elderly woman, claiming that he was veteran Taiwanese singer Fei Yu-ching, who could blame her for falling in love? Many of us will jump at the chance of talking to our favourite celebrities online, let alone romance them.
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