AI ‘Girlfriend’ Scam Swindles Victims Out of 1.8 Million Yuan Across ChinaAI
“女友”詐騙全國多地受害者被騙180萬元
by Wang Xiang 王翔
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A man working in Shanghai transferred more than 180,000 yuan (US$26,985) to an online girlfriend he hoped to marry, only to discover that her identity was a fiction built by a fraud ring using artificial intelligence, CCTV News reported on November 2.據央視新聞11月2日報道，一名在上海工作的男子向他希望結婚的網路女友轉移了18萬多元人民幣（26985美元），卻發現她的身份是一個利用人工智能的欺詐團伙製造的虛構。
The man, identified by his surname Liu, was among 15 victims across China who lost more than 1.8 million yuan to the group, the report said. Those involved received prison terms of up to 11 years and fines.報道稱，這名姓劉的男子是中國15名受害者之一，他們給該組織損失了超過180萬元。涉案人員被判處最高11年的有期徒刑和罰款。
Behind the supposed girlfriend were people following a carefully staged script, using AI-generated or altered images to make the relationship appear real.在這位所謂的女友身後，是一羣按照精心編排的劇本行事的人，他們利用人工智能生成或修改的圖片，讓這段關係看起來真實可信。
Caption: An image used to portray the fictitious online girlfriend in the case, as shown in the news report.說明：新聞報道中展示的、用於塑造案件中虛構網路女友形象的圖片。
Liu first encountered a woman calling herself Tingting on a short-video platform. Her profile said she was looking for a partner with shared values and wanted to marry. After they connected on WeChat, she told him she was an orphan raised by an aunt and sent him regular messages of concern and affection.劉最初在一個短視頻平臺上認識了一位自稱婷婷的女子。她的個人資料顯示，她想找一位價值觀契合的伴侶，並且希望結婚。兩人在微信上取得聯繫後，她告訴劉自己是由姑姑撫養長大的孤兒，還給他發去了日常的關心與溫情消息。
About a month later, she claimed the aunt had a brain tumor and urgently needed money for treatment. A purported medical diagnosis and a photograph of an identity card helped persuade Liu to transfer 40,000 yuan that day.大約一個月後，她聲稱這位阿姨患上了腦瘤，急需治療費用。一份僞造的診斷證明和一張身份證照片說服了劉某當天轉賬4萬元。
Further requests followed as the aunt’s condition supposedly worsened. Over the next two weeks, his total payments rose to more than 180,000 yuan.隨着姑姑的病情據稱惡化，後續的付款請求接踵而至。在接下來的兩週裏，他的總付款金額超過了18萬元。
Lu Chao, an assistant prosecutor at the Minhang District People’s Procuratorate in Shanghai, told CCTV that Liu even took out small loans. He grew suspicious when he could no longer afford to pay and asked which hospital was treating the aunt. The fraudsters supplied an address but would not make a live video call. Liu then went to police.上海閔行區人民檢察院助理檢察官盧超告訴央視，劉某甚至還借了小額貸款。當他再也無力償還，並詢問是哪家醫院在爲那位阿姨治療時，他開始起疑。騙子提供了一個地址，但拒絕進行實時視頻通話。隨後劉某報了警。
Investigators in Minhang traced the operation and arrested people in Guangdong, Shandong, Guizhou and other locations, CCTV reported.據央視報道，閔行區的調查人員追蹤了該團伙的運作，並在廣東、山東、貴州等地抓獲了相關人員。
Caption: A scene shown in CCTV’s coverage of the police operation against the fraud ring.說明：央視報道警方打擊該詐騙團伙行動中播出的一個場景。
The group’s chat operators worked from a seven-day script, sending AI-altered photographs of everyday activities and meals. Instructions included complaining about overtime on the second day and typing casual messages themselves rather than simply copying prepared lines on the third.該團隊的聊天客服人員按照一份爲期七天的腳本開展工作，發送經過人工智能修改的日常活動和用餐照片。指令要求他們在第二天抱怨加班，第三天則自行發送隨意的消息，而非單純複製預設話術。
An early request for a few hundred yuan served as a test. The fictitious girlfriend would say she was quitting her job after harassment by her boss and opening a shop, then ask the man to pay for a congratulatory flower basket.一筆幾百元的早期請求成了試探。虛構的女友會說自己因老闆騷擾而辭職，打算開一家店，然後讓男方花錢買一個祝賀用的花籃。
Prosecutor Yu Qianqian told CCTV that those willing to pay received further attention. Those who refused to buy flowers or small gifts were marked in the operators’ contacts and dropped.檢察官於倩倩告訴央視新聞，那些願意花錢的人會得到更多關注。而那些拒絕購買鮮花或小禮物的人，則會被運營商在聯繫人名單中標記並被剔除。
Potential targets were passed to the organizer or a core chat operator. The requests then escalated to invented family medical emergencies, backed by forged identity documents, medical records and hospital-bed photographs.潛在目標被傳遞給組織者或核心聊天操作員。隨後，這些請求升級爲編造的家庭醫療緊急情況，背後還有僞造的身份證件、醫療記錄以及醫院牀位照片作爲支撐。
The demands continued with claims that special medicines were needed, until victims could pay no more. The largest individual loss in the case exceeded 380,000 yuan, CCTV reported.索賠方還不斷聲稱需要特效藥，直到受害者再也無力支付。據央視報道，此案中個人最大損失超過38萬元。
Editor: Zhu Ying 編輯：朱穎
