The police and the crew kept explaining to Huang Nan that this was a fraud, not love.

(Photographed by reporter Xu Shenglun)

[Reporter Xu Shenglun/New Taipei Report] A 69-year-old man surnamed Huang met a woman through the dating site "MEETSOONS" in November last year. Under the offensive of warmth, Huang fell into a love trap. The woman pretended to provide 1,100 US dollars for Huang's life. And lured him to go to the bank to open an account. Fortunately, the banker was alert and called the police. The police said, "You may become an accomplice in fraud by opening an account like this."

It is understood that Huang Nan, who lives in Luzhou District, New Taipei City, has retired. He became obsessed with dating software when he had nothing to do. The scam group got on the line with him. Men feel warm.

The woman further pretended to Huang Nan that she would provide 1,100 US dollars for living expenses, and asked him to open an account, and asked him to store 10,000 yuan in dating websites, but Huang Nan accepted all the orders.

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This Wednesday, Huang Nan went to a bank on Changrong Road, Luzhou District, and told the clerk that he wanted to open an account, but Huang Nan hesitated and couldn't explain the purpose. The clerk saw through Huang Nan's fraud and called the police.

When the police arrived, Huang Nan insisted on his own opinion at first. It was not until the police reminded him that opening an account indiscriminately might become an accomplice in fraud. Huang Nan regained consciousness and successfully stopped the fraud.

The police appeal that if the public encounters suspicious fraud, in addition to their own investigations, such as making friends online, making friends by phone, being asked to transfer money to a bank or operate an ATM, or to buy game points at a supermarket, etc. For information, you can call 110 or 165 anti-fraud hotline for inquiries, and the police will assist immediately.