Huizhou (China) - A dream woman on the internet, a brazen businesswoman in reality: in China, more than 30 men are said to have been deceived by the same woman. Using the same old scam, the woman seduced her victims and made a lot of money. Now it has all been exposed.

As South China Morning Post reports, the scammer pretended to be a certain Liu Jia as she wrapped men around her finger online.

One of the victims, who went public with the incident under the pseudonym Atao, reports that he met the supposedly 30-year-old Liu last year in March on a dating platform .

He immediately fell in love with the woman, who seemed tender, family-oriented and considerate. Liu claimed she was from Hunan province in central China and had a job in the electrical industry.

"I thought she was the perfect girlfriend," the Chinese man recalls in an interview. After just one month of dating, the couple were already talking about getting married. However, the 30-year-old set tough conditions.

Liu told her lover that he should first buy an apartment. She recommended two specific blocks of houses in Huizhou and offered to help him with the deposit of 30,000 yuan (equivalent to around 3820 euros). She would then want to meet his parents before finally moving in with him.

Drunk with love, Atao finally agreed and bought an apartment in one of the two rows of houses. When it came to the title deed, however, his girlfriend refused to register her name.

Their love was suddenly extinguished when Atao completed the purchase and Liu was suddenly unreachable. Shortly afterwards, he realized that he had become the victim of a scam and that the money was going straight into the pockets of his supposed partner. The home loan would have cost him around 4,100 yuan (around 522 euros) per month, in addition to the rent for his apartment in Shenzhen and the cost of caring for his parents.

The Asian found out that at least 35 other men had been tricked by Liu. All of them were in their thirties and worked in Shenzhen. Another common feature was that the relationship with the supposed dream woman usually only lasted one or two months.

Another victim recalls: "After I bought the house, Liu Jia refused to meet me, saying she was busy." He would then have been blocked from calls and messages.

Atao explains sadly: "I no longer dare to have a girlfriend." It is unclear whether he has called the police in the meantime. The shame of the love betrayal is certainly unbearable.