Hi everyone,
I remember having come across either this post or a similar one on this forum quite some time ago.... So fortunately for me alarm bells started ringing loudly, when I found myself in this exact situation.
Anyways.... what happened was that I went on Tinder and found a pretty contact who had her LineID embedded in her profile pic. I added her and she contacted me the next day.
She was fairly friendly and claimed that she was from Taiwan. HKD 800 for 2h, or HKD 1600 overnight.... outcall. Looked like a very decent offer... but hey, what do they normally say? If its too good to be true, then it probably is.
As I am staying with relatives in Tai Po, New Territories I enquired about incall, to which she provided a building on Po Heung Street. I was not able to find the building and told her that I was near the 7 Eleven. There were a few shady characters standing there doing nothing.
She then asked for my mobile number as she wanted to call me, in case she could not find me. I reluctantly did. Then she said as it was my first time and for her security a friend of her will call me and confirm "a few things". She also asked for what colour I wore and I told her a black T-shirt, what a damn rookie mistake.... 
All the line conversation was written in Chinese, which did not have the practical embedded in chat translate function as wechat does. So I had to paste it in google translate to understand what the heck she was on about, whilst pacing up and down the pavement like a restless tiger.
Some guy calls me and floods me in mandarin, I repeatedly told him that I did not speak mandarin and whether he could speak cantonese. He said he was from Taiwan and spoke little canto... In fact during the entire phone conversation he did not say a single word in Cantonese. Anyhow he tried to steer me towards seven eleven, and something about a MyPayCard or something similar, I should purchase for HKD 500. For everyones safety?!?
I had enough, and hung up and took off. The line lady then calls and asked where I was. By then I was already a few streets away, and not sure whether I was being followed or something. I told the lady I was no longer interested as this was way too complicated than we discussed. I hung up on her and blocked her.
Another callerless ID showed up, which I rejected.
A few minutes later I get a SMS message from XiaoFu followed by some numbers, threatening me and my family, if I did not pick up the phone. He said he had my mobile number and could track me down, thank god this is a unregistered pay as you go SIM. It did look like a pre-written template text, designed to scare you off into compensating them for the girls "lost" time.
He called one more time, which I rejected again.
I am pretty certain this is just psychological warfare. However, just to be on the safe side, I walked half an hour through various shopping malls and outside areas and used an unusual entrance to my building.
I hate scammers....
Thanks to you lot I smelled that there was something iffy going on.
Brothers, please continue reporting scams you encounter.
Stay safe bros.
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