A Chinese man has caused amusement online after he hid two gold bars inside a jar of chilli sauce and mailed them to another province as part of a scam to fund his stock trading account.
The incident recently unfolded in the Jinnan District of Tianjin in northern China when police took down a fraud scheme involving an elderly man.
Li Ruifang, a police officer from the Shuanglin Police Station, received an anti-fraud alert indicating that an elderly man, surnamed Zhao, might be in contact with scammers.
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She rushed to apprehend Zhao and took him in for an interview.
“I was not scammed. I was just casually chatting with a friend about stocks,” Zhao insisted, refusing to reveal further details about the “investment”.
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