The China doll in the photo calls herself Amy, but the image is more likely a digitally enhanced avatar for some ordinary looking man or woman who spends his or her days toiling in a Guangzhong basement. "Amy" approached me on Hinge, an internet dating site that, like all such sites, is a rat’s nest of scammers. The site, and most others, tolerate and even encourage fake sexpots like her because they are great for business.
What Breasts?
Now, Amy could not have known that your editor will always be more attentive to a woman’s gams than her breasts, no matter how large or shapely. However, she evidently had been prepared for this, imbued as she was with a finance degree from Oxford and a high-powered job with a real estate development company headquartered in Miami. She's a jet-setter, too, making frequent trips to Singapore to carouse with friends, play golf and browse the racks at Surrender.Early in our text conversation (we never actually talked on the phone), she also revealed a passion for bitcoin. What a coincidence, I thought! Trying to impress her, and putting aside the question of why a 20-something poulette straight from Page Six would be interested in a 73-year-old alte kaker like me, I told her about my forecasting service and how I have been consistently nailing bitcoin’s price swings within pennies for, like, years. Paying no attention to this, she went on about how she makes big money not by trading bitcoin’s ups and downs, but by booking fees for transactions routed through her bitcoin wallet. Our conversation petered out a day or two later after I mentioned that a picture she had sent me of a supposed site her company was developing in Florida was a fake. Magnification revealed a little Chinese boy standing off to the side with his back to the camera.
Now You Try!
The story became more interesting when I spoke recently with a New Jersey friend who is wealthy and well-known to a large radio audience. He had been approached months earlier on WhatsApp by a sexy young Chinese woman who wanted to show him how to make big money effortlessly with bitcoin. She helped him open an account at bitcoin.com into which she deposited $10,000 of her own money. She then walked him through a series of intricate steps in the account that appeared to rack up profits of several thousand dollars in less than an hour. She told him that he could start doing it himself by depositing money into the account, but that setting it up for trading would require a Social Security number. (She already had his bank information from having deposited the $10,000, which she withdrew immediately after "trading".) No way, he told her, although she persisted.The night I spoke with my friend, he sent me a picture of "his" Chinese boopchang, who goes by Alicia. She looked so much like Amy that it took us a while to conclude that they were two different women. While we were talking, he'd sent Amy's photo to Alicia, asking whether they were friends, and whether she knew Amy's pen-pal Rick. Alicia simply blew off the questions and returned the discussion to bitcoin. Both of these young, virtual courtesans evidently get around. When I posted Amy's picture in the Rick's Picks chat room to warn my guys off a certain, unusually appealing subset of bitcoin scammers, a subscriber texted back that the same woman had approached him, too, on WhatsApp.
Sometimes it seems like there are more scammers online than there are legitimate buyers and sellers. That has been said of Craig's List, and not without reason. An important difference between someone you might meet on Craig's List and a dating site is that the latter presumably would be much less likely to rob and murder you if you were to get together in-person. Regardless, if you come across an irresistible young Asian woman online who wants to talk about bitcoin, you would be wise to end the conversation then and there.
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