According to statistics, the number of single young people in the country has reached 240 million in 2018. What’s even more shocking is that these people are slowly becoming potential targets of love scammers. In other words, many scammers have already set their sights on the huge group of singles.

Speaking of love liars, it reminds me of the much-discussed PUA school some time ago.

In China, this theory, on the surface, means improving one's charm to attract the opposite sex, but in fact it is just to strike up a conversation with women and then have a relationship.

To put it bluntly, for these people, there is no emotional investment, only sexual pleasure.

If we say that the liars who study in PUA are despicable. Well, there is another kind of love liar, which is equally hateful. They use emotions to gain the other party's trust and make people fall into the trap that they have set step by step. They pay for their feelings and money... until in the end, they lose both people and money. Compared with PUA schooling, to put it simply: the former is mostly for sex, and the latter is mostly for money. Although these scams are not very advanced, victims are common.

In the final analysis, it is still because I am blinded by love.

- Scam 1 -

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If you want to know more about me, just look at my circle of friends

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Xiaohong (pseudonym) and her boyfriend Xiaoliang (pseudonym) met on a dating website. After dating for less than a month, the two met offline. Although when they first met, Xiaohong found that Xiaoliang's appearance was somewhat different from the photos provided on the dating website, but Xiaoliang's image was polite and she liked it very much, so she didn't think too much about it. Xiaoliang told her that he was a rich second generation, but he never relied on his family. After he became an adult, he worked hard outside alone. "If you want to know me, just look at my circle of friends," Xiao Liang said. Xiao Hong also believed in this, because as early as the beginning of the relationship, she found that Xiao Liang's circle of friends was full of inspirational work clips, and she couldn't help but feel admiration for him. Unfortunately, the ending of the story is not as sweet as the love in Xiaohong's fantasy. Xiaoliang borrowed money from Xiaohong twice in the name of "starting a business" and "turnover". Xiaohong readily agreed without saying a word and lent him nearly 100,000 yuan twice. Until the third loan, Xiaohong really couldn't afford it, so she didn't agree. However, not long after, Xiaohong discovered that Xiaoliang had blocked all her contact information and disappeared from the world. Xiaohong's world suddenly became dark. That 100,000 yuan was all her savings over the years, and half of it was collected from colleagues and friends because she couldn't bear to reject her boyfriend. Now, the person has disappeared. Not only has the imaginary love been shattered, but he has also been burdened with debts for no reason. The so-called love makes people blind, maybe that's it.

- Scam 2 -

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Buy a big house on the island and walk on the beach every day

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Zhang Junya, born in the 1990s, worked for ten years before she could save enough for the down payment to buy a house in Beijing. But overnight, all the money disappeared. Again, all this is only because of one man. In 2018, Zhang Junya met a boy named "Li Wenrui" on a dating website. Although she had not met in person, Zhang Junya felt that he was her "destiny." Every morning, noon and evening, he sent greetings on time, asked about the welfare, and was considerate. Not long after they met, Li Wenrui told Zhang Junya that he was maintaining a website at a casino in Macau. The website was maintained in the background from 8 to 8:30 every night. He could take the opportunity to modify the odds and asked Zhang Junya if he wanted to take the opportunity to make a fortune. Zhang Junya, who had deep faith in her boyfriend, immediately registered an account and started investing. As her boyfriend said, she won money every time and cash withdrawals were received in time. From then on, she kept investing like crazy, transferring money 17 times, totaling nearly one million yuan. Until one day, Li Wenrui told her that the website was under emergency maintenance and disappeared from the world. But even so, what she cared about most was her lover on the other side of the screen, "Reply the message quickly, I'm worried about you." Until the police told her that this was just a scam. Zhang Junya was in disbelief.

She recalled the vow Li Wenrui made to her, "When we make money, we will buy a big house on the island and walk on the beach every day." Now, she just felt that the whole world had collapsed.

- Scam 3 -

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Now that we have feelings, will I still lie to others?

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In April last year, Ms. Zhu met a 57-year-old boyfriend online who was a "commander" in the United States.

Time has given her boyfriend unimaginable maturity and vicissitudes. After just chatting online for a while, Ms. Zhu felt the happiness of being held in the palm of someone's hand and loved. One day, her boyfriend said he wanted to send a very important "package" to Ms. Zhu. Subsequently, Ms. Zhu was asked to pay more than 140,000 yuan to the designated account through online banking on the grounds of "paying insurance premiums", "certificate of ownership", and "tariffs". Ms. Zhu also had doubts, but her boyfriend's words, "We are in love, will I still lie to you?" made her give up the idea. After the transfer was completed, Ms. Zhu waited and waited, but could not wait for the mysterious "package". Finally, Ms. Zhu realized that she had been deceived. She sadly stated to the police: "Before he appeared, I thought I would never meet true love again at my age. Until I met him, I had hope. But in the blink of an eye, hope turned into despair again." Feel it carefully, This sentence is so sad. How many people's feelings have become hopeless under such desperate destruction.

There are countless scams every year, and there are endless deceptions and tricks. Love scams like the above are just the tip of the iceberg.

According to statistics, among the various victims of scammers, the so-called "lack of love" group accounts for eight of them.

The more you desire love, the easier it is to become a target of hunting. Is this wrong for people who long for love? Apparently not. Stendhal said: "Everyone has the right to enjoy happiness in life, and getting love is a kind of happiness in life." However, there are too many malicious people who satisfy their own selfish desires by playing with the happiness of others. The ancients once said: "When the moon is full, it loses; when the water is full, it overflows."

I think the same is true for love. Maybe everyone can love slower and see clearly what the person they want to love looks like. After all, many times, the more you crave love, the easier it is to lose it.

So girls, it’s better to save some sense and don’t be like moths fluttering into the flames.