Love scams continue to victimize unsuspecting women.

A Hong Kong woman working in the beauty industry met a car trader named Luk in a bar five years ago and they had a whirlwind romance. After he promised to marry her, the couple moved in together in Tsuen Wan.

Luk soon started borrowing money from her, which escalated until he had borrowed HK$3 million, The Standard (TS) reports.

Luk issued a written acknowledgement of debt to her even as he continued to borrow money supposedly to cover his business expenses. He promised to repay her when he sold his mother’s property after their marriage.

But then she discovered that he was seeing another woman and she broke up with him, according to TS.

Soon after her father was diagnosed with cancer but she could not pay for his treatment as Luk refused to pay his debt. Her father died, leaving her in distress.

When the woman shared her tragic experience on social media, other victims of Luk surfaced.

Meanwhile, a Chinese health center offering expensive body detoxification drew customers because of its seemingly caring and thoughtful staff.

The staff would go to senior centers and places where the elderly gathered to offer free “expert” medical consultations, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports.

The consultations involved intestinal cleansing and the seniors were told that the dark liquid extracted from them indicated toxins that the clinic offered to remove.

A woman in her 60s surnamed Li bought numerous expensive treatments from the clinic, priced at tens of thousands of yuan per session. Her expenses reached 700,000 yuan. Another customer spent over two million yuan to detoxify.

The family of one victim reported the clinic to police for its excessive charges and its modus operandi was discovered.

Investigators learned that the intestinal purifying liquid shown to victims to convince them to avail of the clinic’s expensive treatments was cut with soy sauce.

Police arrested more than 30 people involved in the dark fraud, according to SCMP.