WOMAN TRICKED INTO GETTING MARRIED

A woman from Hong Kong claims she was deceived into marrying a stranger in a “mock” wedding. The 21-year-old unidentified woman said she was asked to play a bride in a mock wedding as part of training in order to become a wedding planner. She received a week of free training in Hong Kong before traveling to the Chinese province of Fujian for the mock wedding. However, as the simulated wedding went on, she and the groom signed a real marriage document. She was told by the company that the marriage would be voided after the ceremony. The woman did not realize she was officially married until she returned to Hong Kong and sought legal help. Officials say this is a new form of marriage scam. Each year there are around 1,000 Hong Kong-China marriage scam cases. The usual motive is so that the groom can leave China and move to Hong Kong.
* I smell a rom-com! They marry, split, but later meet again by chance in a Hong Kong coffee shop, where they gradually fall in love.
* They could combine this with an email scam and have a woman marry a Nigerian Prince who’s trying to leave the country.
* My wife’s family keep trying to claim that this is what happened to her in our marriage.
* Well, she learned one thing about being a wedding planner: Step One is to make sure everyone involved aren’t criminals.
* I thought a mock wedding was when your buddies stand off to the side of the preacher and yell things like “Nice tuxedo! How much change did you get back from your $20?”