Scammer Tried FB Love Scam on Ex-Policewoman & Even Claimed to Have Married Her

If you’ve subscribed to our YouTube channel, you’d know what a Facebook love scam is. If not, you’re probably talking to a handsome pilot who’s fallen deeply in love with you, and he’s coming to visit you very soon with a very expensive gift.

In any case, just subscribe to our YouTube channel here and you’d not be scammed because we’ve done some videos with the Singapore Police Force to educate us about various scams.

Lest you really have got no idea what a Facebook love scam is, here’s how it works:

Imagine you’re a lonely woman, and a handsome man requested to be your friend in Facebook. Usually, after you’ve accepted the request and spoken with him briefly on Facebook, he’d ask for your WhatsApp number because he “doesn’t use Facebook regularly”.

Well, the truth is that his account would be taken down by Facebook shortly.

The man would claim to be some successful businessman or a pilot from the US or Canada. Initially, it would just be sweet nothings on WhatsApp, but he’ll slowly profess his love for you, and you guys might spend hours chatting with each other every day.

And he’s unlike your wooden ex-boyfriend or ex-husband whose most romantic sentence is “I’m going to sleep”; their sweet nothings are so sweet, current boyfriends or husbands really need to learn from them.

Depending on how obsessed you are with him, he’d then start to “strike”; he’d say that he’s sent a gift to you but the gift is stuck in customs, or that he’s stuck in somewhere and need immediate cash to free himself.

Whatever it is, he’ll ask for money urgently.

If you’ve made the first transfer to him, he’ll start to ask for more, and more, and more…until you realise that no handsome pilot actually loved you.

And so, you thought a scammer would think twice when trying to scam an ex-police officer, right?

Heck, it might be a trap for the scammer.

But no—scammers don’t discriminate.

Scammer Tried FB Love Scam on Ex-Policewoman & Even Claimed to Have Married Her

According to Wanbao, a 61-year-old ex-police officer, whom we should call Mdm Lim, got to know a handsome Taiwanese from Facebook late last month. The man was supposedly 58 years old.

And like how all stories went, they progressed from Facebook to WhatsApp.

The scammer claimed to work in an oil rig in Poland, and both his wife and child have passed away. He even had a sob story: his wife “died” in labour while his “child” was involved in a car accident.

And here’s the thing: Mdm Lim then told the scammer that she’s divorced and was a former police officer.

That didn’t stop the scammer. Instead, he continued the conversation and said that by the end of September, he’d have completed his work in Poland and would get a bonus of over SGD$21 million.

By then, he hopes to settle down in Singapore, buy a house and also marry her.

Of course Mdm Lim wondered how he could come over with the border closure, but the scammer simply avoided the topic and said he’ll explain once he’s here.

They chatted for almost an hour every night, and the scammer did everything in the scammer’s playbook: he continued to pepper Mdm Lim with sweet nothings and even posted images of them together in Facebook, saying that she’s his wife.

But finally, on 15 September 2020, the scammer wanted to borrow money from Mdm Lim and that was when the scam alert antenna she has lit up.

During a conversation, he claimed that there was a fire in the oil rig he worked in, and even sent an image over to prove his claims. He then requested to borrow SGD $7,500 to buy a piece of new equipment.

And by the way, Mdm Lim did ask for the account details, but didn’t transfer any money, of course.

God knows where the account details went to. Her ex-colleagues?

Since then, there haven’t been any updates as the scammer continue to rush her to transfer the money.

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