A Chinese man was scrolling through a video-sharing platform when he came across a wedding video of a woman who looks exactly like his wife.
In North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a recently married man was shocked to see a video of his own wife marrying another man in a neighboring town. China News reported that the man decided to go to the town of the wedding to confirm what he saw. Even so, he doubted that the woman is his wife.
With the help of local residents, he met the man in the video and confirmed that they both married the same woman. They contacted the police and an investigation was made. It was revealed that the wife and a ‘matchmaker’ were a part of a large scam network that took advantage of men who are desperate to find wives.
Their skill was to convince the man to have a traditional wedding ceremony and pay the dowry without paperwork. The police arrested five people who had been involved in 19 marriage fraud cases that caused a loss of around 2 million yuan which is equal to $314,000.
The first husband said that his wife went back to her family house 3 days after the wedding and seldomly come back. It was one of the reasons why the husband smells something fishy.
Sources: Oddity Central, Global Times