WeChat Scams

WeChat is the most widely used mobile chat application in China by the Chinese. It is also quite popular in Singapore.

It is a very good platform for getting to know people. There is a  feature in the application that I like very much because it helps me to search for people all over the world to make friends with. It is also very popular with businesses who use the platform for marketing and it is definitely one of the platform and I am seriously thinking of using to market my businesses.

And oh, something that is popular can connect with millions of individuals worldwide is also prone to being exploited for darker motives.

Lately, there have been more and more cases in Singapore where guys are asked to pay a small amount of money usually by AXS transfer or other online payment services in exchange for a date, massage or sex. They are usually asked to go a particular location to meet up with the girl but always, when they arrived, the girl is not there.

Of course, there's no such a girl in the first place. It's just a scam!

Then, when they contacted the girls and asked where they were, their replies were usually the same: they have to make some payment first before the girls could appear.

That's the usual tactic. I had experience tons of them.

Then, for some who naively made the first payment, thinking that they could finally meet the girl, they were asked to make additional payment for some "made-up processing fees" or other seemingly reasonable excuses.

But of course, these are just tactics. And, of course, it is very reasonable to fall into such tactics because the reasons are put forward to you in a very reasonable manner.

However, if you look at whole process, and ask yourself how you feel about it, you will know there's something fishy. I am sure you feel something uneasy but perhaps, you have brushed that thought aside because you think you are thinking too much or getting paranoid. But I assure you that you are not.

You see, if it's a normal business, you should be allowed to see the girl in her physical presence. It is very suspicious to have to ask you to make payment first for something you have not even seen.

Just remember simply, it's likely a scam if you are asked to pay for something you have not even seen.

If you are in doubt, feel free to add your comment in this post, or contact me through the contact form provided in the side bar of this blog and I will give you my advice.

You deserve not to be cheated by unscrupulous people.


News Link:

Lured by sex, saved by a 7-Eleven pamphlet
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/lured-sex-saved-7-eleven-pamphlet

Official Information from the National Crime Prevention Council in Singapore
http://www.scamalert.sg/scams/alipay-scam.html