Pretty female college student falls victim to a \"serial scam\"”

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Xiao Wei (a pseudonym), a young and beautiful woman, has not been able to find a satisfactory job since graduating from university two years ago. Not long ago, she met a man in Hangzhou who claimed to be a senior executive from **, and she was hired by his “company”. Who could have imagined that this was actually a trap set by a gang of scammers for the naive her? The poor Xiao Wei was deceived out of more than 40,000 yuan in savings that she had worked hard to accumulate over two years, suffering both physically and mentally. 　　The day before yesterday afternoon, at the Gulou Police Station of the Haishu Public Security Bureau, Xiao Wei cried to the police officers about what had happened to her. 　　Meeting the “**Big Boss**” Xiao Wei, who came from another place, stayed in Hangzhou after graduating from a university there two years ago. Two years have passed, and Xiao Wei has been worried about not being able to find a satisfactory job. About over 20 days ago, she went to a job fair in Hangzhou again in search of work. 　　After talking to a few companies, she felt that none of them were quite right for her. Just as she was feeling disappointed, a stylish man stopped her. Speaking with a Guangdong accent, he politely told Xiao Wei that he was the owner of a large company, and that his company wanted to expand its operations in the mainland, hence it needed to hire many talented and accomplished employees. He said he had been noticing her at job fairs for a long time and found that she met the company’s requirements for employees. After a brief conversation, the man handed Xiao Wei a business card that read: **General Manager of a certain group company——Li X**. 　　Seeing that Xiao Wei was a bit interested, \"President Li\" asked for her resume and said that if she was willing to work for their company, he would inform her after returning to ** and discussing it with the other managers in the company. 　　A week later, “Mr. Li” called Xiao Wei and said he was in Hangzhou on business again. He told Xiao Wei that, thanks to his recommendation to the company’s human resources department, the company had basically agreed to hire her. At the kind invitation of President Li, Xiao Wei went to a five-star hotel where President Li was staying. That night, “President Li” treated Xiao Wei to a lavish dinner, and then took her to a high-class karaoke bar to listen to music. 　　The sheep was sent into the tiger’s den. More than a week later, Xiao Wei received another call from “President Li” from Shanghai, saying that she had been \"officially\" accepted by the company. “President Li told her that the company was currently in talks with a firm in Taiwan regarding a partnership, with the intention of investing in a project in Ningbo. He would be arriving in Ningbo from Shanghai in a few days, and he asked her to meet him there at that time. 　　On the afternoon of January 23, Xiao Wei traveled from Hangzhou to a large hotel in Ningbo to meet with “President Li”. After meeting, \"President Li\" took out 10,000 yuan from a safe and handed it to Xiao Wei, asking her to use that money to dress up first so as to make a good impression on the clients from Taiwan. Xiao Wei was deeply touched by “President Li’s” concern for her. Later, the two of them had dinner together again. That night, in the hotel, faced with \"President Li’s\" sincere declarations of love, Xiao Wei finally couldn’t hold back and gave herself completely to \"President Li\". 　　 The next morning, Xiao Wei was woken up. “President Li told her that a client from Taiwan had called him, asking him to go over first; if there was anything needed, he would come and call her. At around 10 a.m., Xiao Wei received a call from “President Li” asking her to go to another large hotel in the city center. Entering the room, besides “President Li,” there were two other men. “President Li explained that the person wearing glasses was the “Taiwanese boss,” while the other person was his own deputy general manager. 　　Two years’ worth of savings were stolen. The \"Taiwanese boss\" and the men working for \"President Li\" were playing cards, betting large amounts of money; in no time, the Taiwanese boss had lost over 100,000 yuan. Seeing that Xiao Wei was fine over there, the two of them enthusiastically invited her to join them in playing, but Xiao Wei refused repeatedly. At that moment, “President Li” kindly said to Xiao Wei, \"Give it a try; if you win, the money is yours, and if I lose, I’ll pay for it.\" So Xiao Wei also started playing. 　　After playing for a while, Xiao Wei actually won over 70,000 yuan. At the reminder of \"President Li\", everyone prepared to discuss \"serious matters\". However, when \"President Li\" asked the \"Taiwanese boss\" to pay back the money lost to Xiao Wei, the Taiwanese boss said that payment was possible, but according to their gambling rules, it was necessary to check whether Xiao Wei had brought money with her; otherwise, wouldn’t it be obvious that they were trying to cheat him out of his money? 　　Xiao Wei quickly took out the 10,000 yuan that \"President Li\" had given her the previous day, but the \"Taiwanese boss\" dismissed it as not enough at all By this time, Xiao Wei, who no longer had any precautions, went to a nearby bank and retrieved the more than 40,000 yuan she had painstakingly saved over the course of two years. Unexpectedly, the “Taiwanese boss” still felt it wasn’t enough and said, “You won me over 70,000; you must also show me an equal amount of money before I’ll pay you.” ” 　　 At a loss, Xiao Wei wanted to say that 50,000 yuan would be enough, but \"President Li\" refused; he insisted that the \"Taiwanese boss\" pay back the more than 70,000 yuan he had lost. For this reason, he said to Xiao Wei, “Let’s go back to the hotel together. There’s still money in my safe; my deputy general manager will take care of it here, so nothing will go wrong.” ” 　　When Xiao Wei and “President Li” hurried back to the hotel, “President Li” suddenly said that the key to the safe was still with the “Deputy General Manager”. So, he immediately called the \"deputy general manager\" and asked him to bring back the keys as soon as possible, but the \"deputy general manager\" said over the phone that he had to stay there to watch over the money and couldn’t leave. At this point, “President Li” had no choice but to “reluctantly” ask Xiao Wei to retrieve the keys, while he waited for her at the hotel. 　　The final outcome is imaginable. When Xiao Wei rushed to the hotel where the “Taiwanese boss” was staying, the staff member told her that the two men in the room had checked out after they left. By the time she hurried back to the hotel where she was staying, there was no trace of \"President Li\" anywhere; even her handbag and phone, which she had left in the hotel, were gone. Now that she had woken up from her dream, she panicked and rushed to the Gulou Police Station to report the incident. 　　The police officers who received the call rushed to the two hotels mentioned by Xiao Wei to conduct an investigation, and found that all the ID cards used for registration were fake. This post was last edited by HHC8888 on 2009-4-16 17:54.]