Romance scam victim sold gold to pay NT$380,000 for juices

Romance scam victim sold gold to pay NT$380,000 for juices

2025-12-17

A 49-year-old woman in Taichung almost paid NT$380,000 for four boxes of dragon fruit juice. And what’s worse, is that she sold her gold jewelry to come up with the cash to pay for it. Of course, this suspicious exchange didn’t happen at a market, but was the result of an online romance set up by scammers. Ms. Chen said she had met a man online who claimed to be from Hong Kong and said he wanted to marry her. He told her he was sending her an important gift, and that she would have to pay upfront for the delivery. Fortunately the exchanged was stopped by a third party before it was too late. Let’s see how it went down.

- How did you meet?
- Online.
- Where did he say he lives?
- In Hong Kong.
- Let’s open them to make sure what’s inside, and then send the money for the four boxes.
- He told me to pay the delivery man, to let him take the money.
- This is no good for you. Do you drink this?
- No, it’s useless.
- You can’t believe anything online.
- How did you get the NT$380,000?
- I sold my gold.
- You sold your gold! That’s your hard-earned cash!
- I believed him. He said he’s coming to Taiwan.

Yang Ming-hsun
Police officer
The man claimed to be sending her an important gift. He said she needed to collect them and pay the expenses on his behalf. To cover the costs, the woman sold 135 grams of gold from her own jewelry. The contents of the packages turned out to be four cartons of dragon fruit drinks costing just NT$50 each.

Ms. Chen was stopped just before she spent NT$380,000 on NT$200 worth of fruit juice. Now she’ll try to redeem the jewelry she sold. Though the love story came to an abrupt end for Ms. Chen, it’s all for the better, as it was never meant to be.

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#romance #scamalert #jewerly #dragonfruit #juice

真心換真騙! 38萬現金領取"愛的包裹" 開箱赫見火龍果飲

2025-12-17

台中一名49歲陳姓婦人，在網路交友誤信愛情詐騙，對方自稱香港籍男子，以結婚為前提交往，要求婦人貨到付款，領取愛的定情包裹，婦人為了籌措38萬元現金，跑到銀樓變賣金飾，沒想到，真心換真騙，箱子打開來一看，竟是廉價火龍果飲料！

-你們是怎麼認識的?
-網路認識的啊。
-他說他住哪裡?
-他住香港啊。
-今天來就是讓你開箱，讓你確信這個東西，寄四個包裹給他錢。
-說給他錢，司機來滴滴滴讓他拿錢啊。
-你買這個也沒有用啊，你會喝嗎?
-買那個沒有用啊。
-網路真的不要相信。
-你38萬怎麼來的?
-我賣金子啊。
-喔賣金子，你看你的血汗錢。
-我相信他，他要過來台灣啊!

[[烏日派出所長楊明勳]]
“男子聲稱寄送了重要禮物來台，需請她代收並墊付費用。為了籌措這筆鉅款，婦人甚至將家中珍藏多年的36錢金飾拿到銀樓變賣。原來以為的定情貴重物品，開箱後竟是市價不到50元的4盒火龍果飲。”

38萬換來四盒不到200元的火龍果飲，真的是捶心肝，真心換真騙啊。幸好還來得及贖回價值38萬的金飾，沒了愛情，至少保住錢財，也讓婦人有個警惕，小心愛情騙子！

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