Chinese police detain another online Casanova for defrauding 13 girlfriends
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 26 May, 2015, 3:46pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 26 May, 2015, 11:33pm
Laura Zhou
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Text messages said to be from Wu Ming sweet-talking his love interests before asking them for money for his 'cancer treatment' . Photo: SCMP Pictures
Police in Chongqing are seeking the public’s help in a suspected fraud case in which a man allegedly dated 13 women, including four simultaneously, and cheated them of 200,000 yuan .
Police detained the suspect, identified as Wu Ming, earlier this year at a hotel after a woman reported that her boyfriend had disappeared with 38,000 yuan of her savings in March.
The woman, named Li, told police she met the man on the internet last June and soon fell in love. When the man told her that he had been diagnosed with liver cancer, Li quit her job to take care of him, the Chongqing Morning Post reports.
Police discovered another victim with a similar story, named Zhao, after Wu took her to the same hotel room.
“He told me he had liver cancer, and that I was the power that kept him alive,” Zhao said. “I thought I had found true love, but he is just a liar,” she said, adding that she had given him 7,000 yuan as well as access to her bank account.
Police later found that Wu had dated 13 women since 2013, including one who worked at the hotel where he was caught. Another woman spent nearly 5,000 yuan to buy him a new mobile phone.
Wu allegedly told police that he started meeting his girlfriends online in 2013. After meeting someone, he would tell them he was suffering cancer or some other disease, All these women were all willing to support him financially, shelling out more than 200,000 yuan in total.
However, only five came forward who were willing to testify, and police are seeking other witnesses.
Only last week, a man named Yuan who dated 17 women at the same time was placed under criminal detention for fraud in Changsha, Hunan.
