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a woman was introduced to a blind date by her enthusiastic cousin, and after six years of online dating, she found out that her "boyfriend" was actually her cousin in disguise.

song wrote and performed her own "blind date" drama, fabricated the identity of the "blind date" and started an online love affair with her husband's cousin for 6 years. during this period, she frequently defrauded more than 200,000 yuan by making up excuses such as "company management" and "family illness". after being exposed in 2022, song fled, and the police launched an online manhunt for him.

on august 29, 2024, a reporter from the paper learned from the jiading police in shanghai that song has been criminally detained by the public security organs in accordance with the law.

song was arrested by the police. all pictures in this article are provided by shanghai jiading police.

at the end of 2022, the zhenxinxincun police station of the jiading branch of the shanghai public security bureau received a report from a resident, ms. chen, saying that she had encountered an online dating scam and the estimated loss was hundreds of thousands of yuan.

it is reported that as early as january 2016, ms. chen was introduced by her cousin's wife, song, and met a blind date named "zhang lei" through the internet. the two got along very well and soon developed an online relationship. however, during this six-year online relationship, "zhang lei" not only refused to meet with her for various reasons, but also borrowed money from ms. chen many times after the relationship was established, using reasons such as "the company's capital turnover is not good" and "my mother is sick and needs money urgently".

during the relationship, "zhang lei" kept borrowing money from ms. chen for various reasons, but the money was transferred to song's account.

"zhang lei" used various reasons to avoid phone calls or meetings

as a result, the relationship between the two gradually became strained. ms. chen finally decided to break up with "zhang lei" and ask him to return all the loans. however, she was surprised to receive a message from her cousin-in-law, ms. song, admitting that "zhang lei" was actually herself in disguise.

when questioned by ms. chen, song admitted that "zhang lei" did not actually exist.

just as the police were heading to song's hometown to arrest him, song had already fled upon hearing the news, so the jiading police put him on the internet to track him down.

in late july 2024, the jiading police received a report from the yan'an police in shaanxi that the suspect song had been arrested locally. on july 25, the police rushed to yan'an and escorted song back to shanghai.

after interrogation, the criminal suspect song truthfully confessed that in early 2016, because he was in urgent need of funds, he lied that he was introduced to a blind date by his husband's cousin, ms. chen, and fabricated the identity of "zhang lei" through an online account. after using sweet words to quickly develop an online relationship with ms. chen, he began to frequently make up reasons to commit fraud in the name of "borrowing money", and all the money he obtained had been squandered. at the end of 2022, seeing that ms. chen kept looking for "zhang lei" to ask for the money owed, song simply disclosed his identity and fled overnight. since then, in order to avoid police investigation, he has been constantly changing his place of residence and doing odd jobs to make a living until he was arrested. according to preliminary investigations, in the six years that song pretended to be "zhang lei" and had an online relationship with ms. chen, he had defrauded a total of more than 200,000 yuan.

at present, the suspect song has been criminally detained by the public security organs in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud, and the case is under further trial.