The Marriage Con … with a Twist: Woman Disguised Herself as a Man and Proposed Marriage to Other Women

By Alex in Crime & Law on Mar 20, 2008 at 5:46 am

Meet Li Xu, a Chinese "army major" who cheated a strings of girls by disguising herself as a man and proposing marriage:

She was arrested after Liu Lian, of Datong city, Shanxi province, reported she had been cheated out of £11,000 by an army major named Li Zhanyu who she had met on the internet. [...]

Liu Lian said: "He said he wanted to date my daughter, but first needed money to break up with his current girlfriend. He also promised to find my daughter a good job."

But, after Liu wired the money, Li disappeared from her life. [...]

Police thought he was a conman at this stage but their suspicions grew during questioning as they noticed his high-pitched voice and fair complexion.

A check-up by female police revealed Li to be a 25-year-old woman. She confessed she had cheated another two women with the same marriage con.

Li’s scam lasted for two years … and you’d think the, um, boobs would give it away sooner: Link


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  1. ted
    Mar 20th, 2008 at 8:04 am

    How desperate were those women?

  2. Jacques
    Mar 20th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    One of the problems wtih the beaches in Cuba was that sometimes you couldn’t tell whether the boobs were male or female from a distance. To ogle, or not to ogle, that is the question.

  3. L
    Mar 20th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    Ummm… it’s pretty obvious that that’s a woman.


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