Gang Steal Money from Foreigners Via English-Speaking Prostitutes

Gang Steal Money from Foreigners Via English-Speaking Prostitutes
Jun 25, 2013 By eChinacities.com

Editor’s note: this article was translated from Sina News, and looks into a recent story regarding a prostitute who worked with a gang of three men in Guangzhou to steal money from foreign clients. In one incident in particular, a foreigner had a huge cash sum stolen from him. Upon entering the apartment, the women would ask the foreign men to place their bags and clothes in the apartment’s wardrobe. Accomplices working with the women would then enter the apartment via a hole in the back of the wardrobe and replace the money and valuables with fake goods. After being caught following the revelations of the story discussed in the article, the gang is now being held in police custody.  

A prostitute who had been studying English in order to attract foreign clientele was recently detained by police after it was discovered that she and her accomplices, who were also detained, were stealing money and other possessions from foreigners when they were brought back to her apartment. In the wardrobe in the rented apartment, it was discovered that a hole had been dug where an accomplice from the neighbouring apartment would sneak through and steal money and other valuables from the foreigners during massages. On one night in particular, an amount of 340,000 RMB was stolen.

At around 21:00 on May 25 2013, a foreigner came out of a hotel in Guangzhou, and was approached by a woman who offered him massage services. It was then that the woman took him to her rented apartment on Xihua Lu. During the massage, the foreigner, who was given the alias of “Jake” during the incident, had amounts of 50,300 USD and 400 EUR stolen from him as well as an Apple iPhone (which equated to an amount of around 340,000 RMB).

Attractive English-speaking woman offers foreigner a “massage”

Jake told the police that when he came out of the hotel, he was approached by an attractive woman wearing a short black skirt and a tight-fitting white shirt. The woman offered to give him a “massage” for 200 RMB, though eventually the pair agreed on a fee of 50 RMB. Prior to entering the woman’s apartment, Jake went into a store on Xihua Lu and picked up condoms and some Red Bull. As an overseas student at a university in Wuhan, Jake’s Chinese was relatively fluent. He explained that after he and the woman had been in her apartment for around ten minutes, she answered a phone call and hurriedly told Jake that the police were coming to inspect her apartment. Then, the woman suddenly grabbed her clothes and ran away. Jake then realized that all of the cash as well as his phone (which were stored in a bag in the wardrobe of the apartment) had been swapped for fake replacements.   

Gang busted: police reveal sneaky methods    

On June 11, the Guangzhou Liwan District Public Security Bureau arrested a group of four people. The four, who were two men surnamed Deng (both 41 and 23 respectively), a man surnamed Wei (23), and a woman surnamed Chen (29) were all under suspicion of theft and were made to payback stolen funds amounting to 260,000 RMB. During the trial, the four all admitted to committing the crime against the foreigner.       

On June 17, reporters present at the woman’s apartment were shown by a plain clothes Police Chief surnamed Wei that upon pushing the back of the wardrobe, the wooden surface opened up revealing a hole which ran through to the apartment next door. It was concluded that when Jake was focusing all of his attention on the woman, two men had snuck through the hole in the wall and out of the wardrobe, and subsequently switched his money and phone with fake replacements.

Many women recruited

Reportedly, the three men who were arrested would often spend time in their hometown searching for women who they believed had “taken a wrong step in life”, and would ensure they were taught basic spoken English and knew how to coerce foreigners using the language. After foreigners were successfully seduced, they were taken to a specific location chosen by the gang where they would have their money and valuables stolen during their sexual exchanges with the women. The women would then use false excuses such as saying the police were coming or their husbands were coming home before quickly disappearing.  Leader of the gang Deng (41), admitted that he would manipulate the women by offering them a decent cut of the money stolen.

Many apartments across Guangzhou

According to police investigations, it was later found that the suspects used fake identity cards to rent apartments in Guangzhou’s Yuexiu, Liwan and Baiyun districts. Each of the apartments they rented featured the same hole dug out at the back of the wardrobe, which led to the neighboring apartment. “Each apartment was rented for a very short amount of time,” explained Police Chief Wei. Wei explained that the women would make their clients place their clothes and bags in the wardrobe, and all of the funds and possessions stolen were immediately taken away from Guangzhou and stored elsewhere. 

As well as the four suspects being held by the police, Jake is also in custody in accordance with China’s anti-prostitution laws.

Source: news.sohu.com

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donnie3857

We hear a lot of stories about how "stupid" the Chinese are. After reading a few stories here I have found that there are at least a few foreigners who are much stupider. DUH

Dec 05, 2013 11:27 Report Abuse

maxwell888

Some thing seems a bit a strange an over seas student carrying around 50,000 USD, and he can speak chinese which means he must of been in china for a while and yet he still gets caught out like this? Also he walking around with 50k in his bag but he refuse's to pay the girls going rate and bargains her down from 200 rmb to 50 Rmb for sex, and he still wants to get his money's worth by drinking red bull to keep his stamina up !!!! how the hell do you walk around with 50,000 USD in a bag, how much money are you legaly allowed to bring into china if your a student?

Jun 26, 2013 11:11 Report Abuse

Guest922618

who the hell is so stupid and running around with 50000$? to be honest thats almost deserved to lose it

Jun 25, 2013 14:45 Report Abuse

nevermind

Ya. Don't. Say.

Jun 25, 2013 10:53 Report Abuse

bill8899

At least she's studying English!

Jun 25, 2013 10:08 Report Abuse

Firefighter

Differences in lifestyle are playing out in the open in most of the cases involving foreigners in China. Asian men don't need coaxing from women. When they feel the urge to meet a woman, they know where to find one. Unlike them, foreigners, both men and women have found themselves giving into the advances of random strangers. This trigger-happy approach to sex has devastating consequences. No wonder the pimps here quickly made use of this character flaw and went looking for unpolished women in the countryside. Which hours should be working hours for foreigners? Should one be so eager to get laid at any time of the day? After running errands the whole, isn't it wise to drop of money at the bank and some valuable possessions where one resides, before making plans for the next move? Being randomly propositioned to has nothing to do with physical qualities, instead it should ring a bell in your mind as to the effrontery of the woman. If she's this brave, then she has thrust all inhibitions under the carpet, this there's something wrong somewhere. Experience has shown that no real girl hangs around in street corners. Those vocal highway women should be taken for who they are. A word to a wise is enough!

Jun 25, 2013 08:06 Report Abuse

RachelDiD

It's disgusting what these criminals are doing, but every time I hear stories like this, I have to shake my head at how stupid these foreigners are. I'm not a man, and I don't solicit prostitutes, but, for crying out loud...is it really a smart idea to have that kind of cash value on you at any time, in the first place? And even if it were, is it a smart idea to take that cash value, on your person, with a stranger to a place you don't know, and letting it leave your eyesight? And then doing an activity that makes you lose focus on anything else in the room? I understand that they are the victims, but is it really that hard to get laid in China, that these guys abandon every last shred of common sense after a girl propositions you? It's the kind of stupid you wish they didn't make anymore.

Jun 25, 2013 03:28 Report Abuse