Desperate Single Men Trapped in ‘Flash’ Marriages, Brides Disappear After Wedding

Desperate Single Men Trapped in ‘Flash’ Marriages: Police busted a racket of matchmaking companies in China which have been cheating visiting men with young girls posing as brides. Some girls have earned more than ₹35 lakh (300,000 yuan) in a few months of their scam marriages.

According to South China Morning Post, a police station located in Huaguoyuan reported 180 matchmaking fraud cases within a single year. These matchmaking companies hunt single males from other small cities of the countries and, recruiting single women, who were mostly widowed and had loans, persuade them about the money to be earned by being a part of the scam.

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Introduce the women as brides to men and once finalized, direct them to sign contracts with the agency by paying hundreds of thousands of yuan for their bride.

Usually, soon after the wedding, the bride fled, disappeared, or would put pressure on the man to divorce her making them known as "flash marriages".

One woman reportedly made 300,000 yuan (₹35 lakh) by visiting several flash marriages in three months.

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She registered for marriage with a client in December last year, only to file for divorce shortly after over domestic violence charges. She did not return the bride price and was awarded part of the man's property, including a car he had bought for her.

After the divorce, the woman continued to go on more dates to find a new husband. One of her victims told local media that he meet her through an agency and paid a cash gift of 118,000 yuan to her family.

Two months after their wedding, she began leaving town frequently and pressured him to buy her a home and a car. When she vanished, he sought a refund from the agency but found that the company had shut down.

A former customer service representative at one of the fake agencies revealed that there was no shortage of male customers to scam. “We do not worry about the source of male customers at all. There are many across the country. We can select a male customer for blind dates from 40 to 50 candidates every day," he said.

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