Thanks, unfortunately there's a very slim to none chance to recover the loss but I hope more people will find out that this type of scam is on the rise and I have looked at the internet, there's only Reddit and Quora who briefly mentioned about it. This scammers being using this pretty young Asian girls for quite sometimes and actually the scam is quite popular in China and they even have a name for it "killing pig plate". The victims are pigs in this case.
Here's an article on how it works: Online Dating Scam: The Art of Killing the Plated Pig
The Chinese and Hong Kong officials are aware of this because they use the same tactics to convince a lot of people, mostly men to trade/buy gold in the past few years. It's all throughout Southeast Asia. I hope that they can get expose more through the main medium.
They are now targeting the west because we rarely hear about it.
I hope people can tell this to family and friends, so they can watch out for this. I have read that some people have lost their whole life savings in this kind of scams.
Here's an article on how it works: Online Dating Scam: The Art of Killing the Plated Pig
The Chinese and Hong Kong officials are aware of this because they use the same tactics to convince a lot of people, mostly men to trade/buy gold in the past few years. It's all throughout Southeast Asia. I hope that they can get expose more through the main medium.
They are now targeting the west because we rarely hear about it.
I hope people can tell this to family and friends, so they can watch out for this. I have read that some people have lost their whole life savings in this kind of scams.