The victim of the scam in Jiangsu province. Photo: 163.com.
BEIJING: A woman in eastern China was swindled out of hundreds of thousands of yuan by a man online who turned out to be her son-in-law, Chinese media reported.
The woman from Yangzhou in Jiangsu province was courted by a man she met on the web, who used a variety of excuses to trick her into wiring him more than 600,000 yuan (US$86,900) over a period of nine months, the Yangtse Evening Post reported.
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