“From time to time, he would talk about this investment programme, and after a while he said I was lucky enough to receive an invitation to invest,” said Ms Ong, who only wanted to be known by her surname. The man, who claimed to be a group manager at e-commerce and gaming firm Sea Limited, added Ms Ong as a Facebook friend and started to message her regularly over the course of three weeks. The Malaysian woman, who works as an administrative officer in Singapore, told The Straits Times that she was approached by the man on Facebook Dating in February. What 27-year-old Ms Ong thought was blossoming love after an online encounter on Facebook’s dating service, turned out to be a scam that saw her lose $5,000 in three weeks.
