Taipei - A Taiwanese man has been arrested for a scam in which he tricked up to 20 women into having sex because they believed they were helping to prolong his life, according to press reports Sunday. Hsu Hsien-ming, a 50-year-old divorcee and stock market analyst, was arrested at a Taipei hotel Saturday as he was checking out the after meeting his latest victim, the Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) reported.
Allegedly, Hsu posted photos online of a young model and used that image to contact the women. Going under the name Angor, he introduced himself as a 30-year-old son of a Taiwanese father and French mother who was on business in the US, but was looking to marry a Taiwanese woman.
However, according to reports, Angor would not consider marrying a woman unless she was prepared to have sex with his father - Hsu, in real life. The request was explained by the fact that Angor's father had terminal prostate cancer and only six months to live. Only constant sex would keep him alive, Angor told the women.
Some 100 women, aged between 28 and 50, were drawn in by the scheme. Of those, about 20 went on to have sex with Hsu. Others sent money to help with Angor's mother's breast cancer surgery.
One married woman, identified as Mrs Yu, gave Hsu 180 million Taiwanese dollars (5.4 million US dollars) to buy stocks, a house, a car and a diamond watch, and gave him 100,000 Taiwanese dollars (3,000 US dollars) monthly living expense, in the hope that Angor would marry her.
After learning that she had been cheated, she rushed to the police station to confront Hsu Saturday. "I want to kill him with my high heels," she told reporters.
Police said the victims of Hsu's scheme were not stupid. "They fell for the trap because they were lonely," Wu Wen-kuei, a police spokesman, said on TTV.
