matched with this guy in cmb dating app. there are so many red flags, writing this to create awareness.

1. he's not in sg, he's in shanghai. 1st red flag, as someone keen on dating should be in same location as you, in order to meet up. his reason was he always comes to sg for business & thinking of settling down & get a pr. he will visit sg in sep.
2. he asked for whatsapp, the number used to whatsapp is malaysia country code +60 he said this number he used when he went for business trip to malaysia, i asked him when was his last visit to malaysia, he said 2 yrs ago. WHILE I READ ONLINE WHATSAPP IS BANNED IN CHINA UNLESS YOU USE VPN. so i asked if he used vpn, his answer was no i used mobile data, when my data finished i will use vpn. i really want to laugh, this guy did not understand what he was saying. this whole conversation with him is another red flag.

3. he shared about trading gold using metatrader 4 (mt4). asked me to download & open demo account. i'm actually a trader myself & used mt4 for forex trading, but i pretend & play along with him. the broker he's using is glluck, you can find the name in mt4 & website of the company (based in us), everything looks legit. only that when i googled for review of glluck, there was a post saying this company not regulated & warn to stay away. he said he has "teacher" who know very well the timing to trade, once the teacher tells him when to trade he will share with me so we can trade at same time. he texted me to trade that night, but i didn't reply his message, so he was trying to call me twice, i didn't answer. after that he showed me screen shot of his trading profit 35,100 usd. to trade with this profit, you need to have a least usd100k capital. if he could make this much in one night, he won't be sharing with a stranger whom he never met. after that night i didn't continue to chat with him because i knew from the beginning this guy is a scam. i just wanted to know what's the scam tactic since this type of scam was not heard before in sg. i did a google search, it's very common in china and hkg, they use mt4 so it looks legit, they will then manipulate the broker system (or create fake broker), they will make you create live account after trying demo account, let you earn money from trading, but later the more you put in, you won't be able to get the money back.