Man Shocked To See Video Of His Wife Marrying Another Man, Turns Out She's Part Of A 'Marriage Scam'

Imagine finding out that the person you are married to is getting hitched to someone else. Sounds painful, right? Well, a Chinese man learnt this in probably the worst way possible.

The 35-year-old anonymous man, from Bayannur, Inner Mongolia was constantly pushed by his family to get married. A matchmaker named Li introduced him to a woman in Gansu.

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The woman wanted the unnamed man to pay a dowry of 148,000 yuan (Rs 16.9 lakh) before tying the knot in January. The couple held a traditional wedding and did not get it registered as the woman claimed that there were issues with the woman's household registration.

Once married, the woman gave several excuses that she needed to go back to her hometown as she missed her family.

A few months later in March, while scrolling through social media, the man came across a video of a woman who looked a lot like his wife getting married to another man. Furious, he decided to visit the place where the wedding took place to find out the truth.

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When he learnt that it was actually his wife getting married in the video, he lodged a police complaint.

According to Global Times, the police investigated the case and found out that 19 men who were looking for wives were tricked into the marriage scam. Most of these men hailed from rural backgrounds and were above the average marriage age.

They were reportedly duped of more than 2 million yuan (Rs 2.28 crore), authorities in Inner Mongolia said last week.

Another woman named Dawa, from the same province, had been involved in the same scam since August 2019, South China Morning Post reported.

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The police detained the two women, matchmaker Li and two other accomplices who were acting as the brides¡¯ relatives.