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after becoming close friends with her boss, a woman named huang pretended to be an abandoned daughter of a wealthy hong kong family and defrauded her best friend of millions of dollars by claiming that she needed to inherit the family business and pay inheritance tax. she has now been criminally detained in accordance with the law.

on september 3, a reporter from the paper (www.thepaper.cn) learned from the xuhui police in shanghai that in july this year, ms. li, who is about 50 years old, accompanied by her son, reported to the xujiahui police station of the xuhui branch of the shanghai public security bureau that her former employee huang had defrauded her of more than 1 million yuan over a few years.

it is reported that five years ago, ms. li, who runs a housekeeping company, recruited huang as a dispatcher. seeing that huang was about the same age as her, divorced, single and homeless, ms. li let huang live in her company, and huang would give ms. li gifts or treat her to dinner every now and then to express his gratitude. ms. li also felt that she was surrounded by older housekeeping staff, and it was rare for her to get along well with huang, who was the same age as her. after a few visits, the two became close friends who could talk about anything.

during a chat, huang deliberately told ms. li about his troubles. huang said that her biological mother was in hong kong, her surname was li, she was a wealthy businessman, and she had just passed away. her mother in shanghai was actually her adoptive mother, and her adoptive mother's biological daughter was named zhou li. huang said that she was abandoned in shanghai by her biological mother since she was a child, and her family did not allow her to recognize her biological mother. but recently, the police contacted her and said that zhou li was arrested when she impersonated her to go to hong kong to inherit her biological mother's property, resulting in all the assets under the name of her biological mother li (hundreds of properties and tens of billions of funds across the country) being frozen by the hong kong police. then, huang changed the subject and asked ms. li to borrow money to smooth relations and unfreeze assets. ms. li, who believed in the other party, did not say much and transferred 300,000 yuan to huang for emergency. afterwards, huang borrowed another 200,000 yuan from ms. li on the grounds of paying inheritance taxes.

not long after, ms. li received a call from a woman speaking mandarin with a hong kong accent, claiming to be huang's aunt from hong kong, begging ms. li to take good care of huang, who was living abroad, and that she would double the repayment after her sister's assets were unfrozen. unexpectedly, this was another trick that huang came up with to keep ms. li.

"at that time, because she had been working for me for a long time and said that this matter could be resolved quickly, i did not ask her to write an iou." but soon, ms. li ran out of cash, so huang began to beg her to apply for a credit card to cash out for her use, and successively applied for 11 credit cards. at first, she would transfer the money back to ms. li through a debit card or alipay, but over time, she began to default on her debts one by one.

no matter how good the friendship between best friends is, it is inevitable to be suspicious in the face of a long-standing huge debt. if you don't check, you won't know that by the time of the incident, huang had "borrowed" more than 1 million yuan from ms. li. ms. li then contacted huang's "adoptive mother" ms. wen, who ruthlessly exposed huang's lies. it turned out that ms. wen was huang's biological mother. huang was a habitual liar and vain. he had failed in his investment in his early years. his family had spent all their money to repay his debts. the two sides had not been in contact for a long time, and he was unable to restrain her or take on new debts.

police arrested the suspect huang. photo courtesy of shanghai xuhui police

after receiving the report, the police confirmed ms. li’s statement through various channels and arrested huang in july this year.

although huang tried to defend himself in every possible way at the beginning, he was ultimately unable to justify himself in the face of all the evidence and admitted his crime.

at present, huang has been criminally detained according to law on suspicion of fraud, and the case is still under further investigation.