Transnational marriage swindles bitter pill of illegal gender selection

SEVERAL YOUNG MEN IN MINQUAN COUNTY, Henan province, have been swindled out of 160,000 yuan ($22,754) each by fraudsters posing as a transnational matchmaking agency. China Daily writer Wang Yiqing comments:

The fraudsters promised to organize marriages for the men with women in Pakistan and arrange for them to bring their wives back to China. The men paid the money and held "wedding ceremonies" with the women in Pakistan but were unable to bring their "wives" back home.

Such fraudulent matchmaking agencies that claim they can help unmarried men find foreign wives from Vietnam, Ukraine and Pakistan, as long as the men pay a large sum of money for the cost of a blind date, wedding and bride price have been frequently exposed by the media recently. These agencies are frauds in the name of transnational matchmaking, and some of them are actually involved in human trafficking.