Romance scams in Vietnam

Last updated on 29 Apr 2019

Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City

How it works:

Version 1: you meet someone offline whom you build a relationship over time. As the relationship gets stronger, money will be asked from you for living expenses and culminate in an investment property/asset not held under your name.
Version 2: you meet someone online, and as the relationship builds overtime, the scammer offers to make (non-existent) travel arrangements for you and get you to send money over.

Places to beware:

Ho Chi Minh City

What to do:

It is best to avoid such activities especially when money is involved as odds are nothing good ever comes out of it.

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2 user stories related to this scam

Met a Vietnamese woman from Saigon online

MarkB 20 Feb 2019 2 0

I met a Vietnamese woman from Saigon online. I was traveling from the United States to visit her . I met her before in Vietnam and the trip was very nice after I left Saigon we continue to talk online.

We decided for me to travel again to Vietnam she told me that she had a friend in a travel agency that can save me airline ticket price. So I WesternUnion her a total of $1900 hundred dollars so she can bank transfer the money to the agency.

She did transfer the money and bought the ticket and sent me the photo of the reservation after that she was going to get me a hotel room and ask me to send $800 dollars more I told her that I will but that expensive on my credit card when I arrive nine days before my trip she canceled my ticket and had the money sent back to her and told me she seen a photo on my Facebook with another woman and that she is keeping my money for a broken heart.

When I told her that photo is a friend of 15 yrs and that is just a excuse to steal my money she just laugh ? and tell me that their nothing I can do.

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Has to relinquish all identity documents to them for safe keeping

M 18 Feb 2017 2 1

My brother was put into contact with a relative of a lady my niece knows from work. They want him to go visit her to see if there any chemistry. But even before he goes they say he has to relinquish all identity documents to them for safe keeping. WTF

My niece seem to trust this lady 100% but who the fuck makes such request. I just wanted to know if anyone has been scammed or worse knows of someone who never returned.

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