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The original was posted on /r/scams by /u/glitterfineapple on 2025-07-10 23:16:39+00:00.
My father met a woman on Hinge from China when she was here in America in winter. They spent so much time together, it really seemed genuine. They’ve talked all the time, he’s gone there to visit her a few months ago. It seems legit, but then money got involved, and I’m very confused by this.
Numerous times, she’s asked him to get him esim cards for her because they “work better than here”. Also, now twice he’s had to go to banks for her. Apparently, there’s no issue to him, because he’s not putting his name on anything, but he is being a middle man. He’s gone to the bank in NY, a teller has came out, and she has talked to them, I believe the teller talks in Chinese to her.
She is a judge in China, and apparently has so much money, but there’s a lot of details missing, like a child she cannot see, and parents he was not able to meet suddenly on his visit to China.
Next week he’s going to a Citi bank and he will video call her from the bank so she can speak with a teller. Supposedly, she has received a letter when she tried to do internationally banking that she just has too much money over there in China, she is worried someone will take it, and because of that, she put money in US banks she cannot access, and she cannot call here about it.
It really makes no sense to me, and I don’t understand his involvement. I’m worried this is the beginning of some pig butchering scam or something suspicious. I don’t want him to be tied to her in this way, I don’t know if she is doing something and scamming multiple people. I’ve just never heard of something like this. He is insistent it has to be Citibank for some reason and in NY because it’s easier for her. I am very confused why he’s involved and the go between, and I think it’s something sketchy. He believes because his name isn’t on it he’s just helping her. But I’m worried somethings going on behind the scenes. He claims he’s not moving money, I’m just not sure what’s happening, and I feel like there’s something scam-ish, but maybe I’m paranoid. Thanks.