Taiwan FamilyMart employee saves Singapore post-grad student from love scammer

A Singaporean woman assisted by local police in Tainan after she was threatened by a scammer to buy gift cards. - PHOTO: TNPD12 via The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean woman on a solo trip to Taiwan came close to losing NT$30,000 (S$1,260 - RM4,353) to a love scammer she first befriended on a dating app, but was saved by an alert convenience store employee, local police said.

The woman, identified as 24-year-old a post-graduate student surnamed Zhao, was travelling in Taiwan for more than a week and met a man known as ‘Chen Chen’ on Tinder, the Tainan City Police Department said on Sunday.