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China boyfriend in hot water after giving girlfriend US$97,000 in fake cash to buy flat to keep future in-laws happy

  • Boyfriend buys bank training coupons online, wants to purchase home for girlfriend
  • She finds suitcase filled with mock money, takes to bank then police, boyfriend held

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A man in China who was under pressure from his would-be in-laws to buy his girlfriend a flat bought fake money online to keep them happy and ended up being detained by the police. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Baidu
Yating Yangin Beijing

A man in China who deliberately bought 700,000 yuan (US$97,000) in fake cash to meet his future in-laws’ request to buy their daughter a flat, was detained by police after his girlfriend thought he had been scammed when she found the money.

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On April 11, in Gucheng, Hubei province, central China, a woman carrying a suitcase purportedly filled with cash went to the police station to file a complaint, according to Star Video.

She explained that she had tried to deposit the cash her boyfriend had given her at the bank, where she discovered it was not real.

When the police looked inside the suitcase they found that only the top bill of each bundle looked like real currency, while the rest were all coupons used for the training of bank staff, according to the report.

On checking the suitcase of fake cash, the woman went to the police thinking her boyfriend had been scammed. Photo: Baidu
On checking the suitcase of fake cash, the woman went to the police thinking her boyfriend had been scammed. Photo: Baidu

During questioning, the man admitted he had resorted to deception because of pressure from his girlfriend’s parents to buy their daughter a flat.

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“Her parents wanted me to buy her a flat, but I could not come up with that much money at the time, so I bought these papers online,” he admitted.

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