Following the thread, I was also subjected to a very similar scam.
I did not fall for it but still wasted several hours talking to the girl and going to the place to take the picture of the door as they all "afraid of cops".
1. Browsing Tinder
2. Find a very cute girl with obvious Sex behind the scene
3. adds her WeChat through her description on Tinder
4. Start talking and discuss, price/service etc.
5. As I am by nature a skeptical person I ask more pictures of her to prove she is not a scam to which she complies grudgingly like a normal person who would not be happy to be thought a scammer (good psychology trick here), I start to let my guard down ( i am new to HK.. )
6. Go to somewhere in Mong Kok, take a picture of the place to let her know I am there, and then she asks me to buy and send her the code of some card in a convenience store nearby "to reassure her I am not a cop".
7. at this point I am like WTF is this how it is in HK? So i start being impatient to which she says "I feel sorry for you to come all the way here, please send me the code and I will open up the door for you.."
8. So now psychology plays hard on me. I have the "Sunk cost fallacy" playing against me as I also feel sorry for myself to have come all the way here in a crowded jungle of week-end in Mong Kok, so my mind still considers to buy the card even though the second she said that I knew it was a scam.
9. I tell her"去死 (qu si = "go die")" and that i will report her WeChat account for scam and delete her.
Becareful out there bros, I know it is hard, but control your emotions, your brain should rule your body and not the opposite!
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is this how it is in HK? So i start being impatient to which she says "I feel sorry for you to come all the way here, please send me the code and I will open up the door for you.."