SHANGHAI, Feb. 8 -- A Shanghai woman staged a fake wedding with a man posing as a wealthy real estate businessman and scammed her relatives out of 12 million yuan (RM7.1 million) by promising cheap property deals.
The 40-year-old, known by her surname Meng, came up with the scheme after her small real estate agency failed in 2014, South China Morning Post reported, citing Shanghai TV.
To convince her relatives, she proposed a staged wedding to Jiang, a married driver she met while hitchhiking, claiming her parents were pressuring her to get married.
Jiang agreed to the plan and held a wedding with her using a pseudonym.
Meng told her relatives that Jiang was a real estate entrepreneur involved in major construction projects and had acce...