Shopaholic pretending to be a rich woman to cheat
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, Even if the debt is high and the family owes 6 million yuan, it is still unbearable to buy. Two years ago, he pretended to be a rich woman, stayed in a 5-star hotel for a long time, and deceived the female apprentice family of a hair salon with 728,000 yuan to pay the rent and the number of cards. She pleaded guilty to 24 counts of fraud and obtaining property by deception in the District Court yesterday and was remanded in custody until sentencing on the 25th of this month.
The unemployed defendant Yang Weiwei (31 years old), who was graduated from Beliros
Girls High School and later studied economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but dropped out of school, waited for the spirit while on remand. , social service order and probation report before sentencing.
The facts of the case pointed out that Yang was staying at the 5-star Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Lan Kwai Fong Hotel at the time of the crime. She was also a frequent visitor to a well-known hair salon in Lan Kwai Fong, and often paid large tips, so she was with the female apprentice surnamed Wu and the others. The boyfriend surnamed Zeng who worked in the hair salon became friends, and later met Wu's parents through Wu's introduction.
In March 2008, Nv Yang pretended to invite Wu as an assistant to go to Taiwan on business, but on the grounds of helping Wu apply for a Taiwan entry permit, she asked her to hand over her ATM card, password and credit card as a security deposit. After depositing 62,500 yuan into the account, she handed 7 credit cards to Ms. Yang. Later, she instructed Wu's parents to sign the hotel payment form, and Wu's boyfriend also deposited 120,000 yuan into Wu's account as instructed.
Paying a large tip to lure the apprentice in the hair salon
later, Mother Wu revealed to Nv Yang that her husband's company had difficulty in turnover. Nv Yang said that she could lend a loan of 4 million yuan, but asked her to provide a security deposit first. 20 unpaid cheques were handed to Ms. Yang, and she signed and provided photocopies of her ID cards on several unknown documents. It was later discovered that the batch of documents were Lane Crawford department store payment authorization forms.
In the next month, Wu's mother discovered that Yang's daughter had paid for the hotel with a credit card, acquired a large number of Lane Crawford gift certificates, and shopped at a clothing store. After repeated requests, Yang Nv returned a small amount of 49,000 yuan, but still owed a large number of cards. Wu mother called the police, and Yang Nv admitted that everything was fictitious under the warning, and said that she had repeatedly raised money in Wu's account. payment. During the investigation, the hotel concierge also confessed that during the incident, she repeatedly followed Ms. Yang’s instructions to pick up gift certificates and goods from Lane Crawford, and some of the goods were handed over to Mrs. Wu. Lane Crawford also confirmed that Ms. Yang was shopping by mail order.
UCLA dropped out of school, went bankrupt, and refused to seek medical
advice. The defense pleaded for pleading that Yang, who came from Fujian, moved to Hong Kong when she was young and had outstanding academic performance. She went to study in the United States in 1998 and enrolled at UCLA. To please her boyfriend, she went shopping frantically and became indebted, but she still spent a lot of money while repaying the debt, and ended up going bankrupt. In 2000, Yang Nv dropped out of school and returned to Hong Kong due to a disability. She served as a tutor and a buyer successively. She lost her job the year before and was unable to compensate.
The Yang family learned that their daughter was ill and took her to the psychiatric department of Queen Mary Hospital for consultation. However, the Yang family refused to follow-up for treatment in order to conceal her condition. When the incident happened, she donated items to the Wu family and paid part of the money on Wu's behalf.
【Case No.: DCCC1209/09】
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