Love was on the contents of the new issue ofScams broadcast this Friday, April 28 on M6. But you can imagine it since the magazine is presented by Julien Courbet: love stories end badly. During the investigation, viewers met Christophe, residing in Vendée. At the supermarket, this house painter only buys what he needs. He cannot do otherwise: Recently, this 40-year-old man lost all his savings and even got into debt. To deal with the situation, the witness says he had to call on his ex-wife. “She lent me 250 euros. She paid my rent at 750 euros. And she went shopping for 200 euros. This month she kinda saved my life“, he confides. What happened to lead to such a situation?
A 40-year-old man, victim of love fraud, testifies in Scams on M6
Three months earlier, a stranger began to write comments under the photos of Christophe published on Instagram. “We had things in common, she likes food, she likes nature. And then she was cute so it could be interesting“, he recalls. This woman calls herself Tina, a 32-year-old Chinese woman and introduces herself as a recently divorced owner of a luxury boutique in Hong Kong. “The first thing I said to myself was that it was probably a scam because she lives on the other side of the world and it very rarely happens that people come to contact me without knowing each other. . I was suspicious right away. At first, I saw it a bit like a game, and then I got caught up“, he describes. It is at this moment that the trap closes on him.
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47,000 euros lost by one of the witnesses ofScamsJulien Courbet’s magazine on M6
Their conversations become intimate, the young woman compliments Christophe and the two correspondents end up talking to each other every day. Tina explains that she made a fortune thanks to cryptocurrencies and offers her prey to invest in turn. In a few weeks, the Vendéan invests 30,000 euros and then notices the arrival of good money inflows into his account… Until the day when the counter shows 0 euro. “I realized that I was robbed“, he laments after having sent 47,000 euros in total. After that, Tina will never give any news again. In reality, Christophe was robbed by a mafia of love. He is now banned from banking .
In Asia, thousands of scammers trap anonymous people via a love scam
Julien Courbet’s magazine managed to locate some of these female scammers. They are found in particular in Burma, Thailand and Cambodia, in ultra-secure buildings in which thousands of Chinese would be sequestered to scam victims around the world. Armed men control the entrances, secured by cameras and barbed wire. These places are called “scam parks” where thieves are taught to rob their victims according to methods inscribed black and white in documents: sentences to initiate conversation translated from Chinese to English, photos to make their stories more credible… Everything is done to fall into the trap.
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