中国贵阳的婚介机构大规模诈骗单身男性，通过虚假身份信息和伪造背景将受害者与骗婚女性配对。[1]受害者王庄支付了超过30万元的聘礼，加上婚宴等相关费用，总计花费40-50万元。[1]另一名受害者徐如林与儿子为相亲共投入近50万元，新娘却在入住不到两周后逃离。[1]
根据中国官方数据，2024年1月至2025年3月期间，检察机关处理了1546起婚介行业犯罪案件。[1]其中一起案件中，婚介机构以卡拉OK女服务员作诱饵对128名受害者实施诈骗，骗取超过250万元。[1]有婚介机构经理声称"我们这里超过90%的客户信息是真实的"。[1]中国官方近期启动了全国性打击行动应对这一问题。[1]
法律层面存在漏洞。律师范炳和指出，中国法律缺乏针对婚姻欺诈的具体犯罪定义。[1]与此同时，中国现有男性比女性多3000万，这一人口失衡加剧了单身男性的脆弱性。[1]
A matrimonial agency in Guiyang, China has orchestrated a large-scale scam targeting single men by pairing them with women using fabricated identities and false backgrounds [1]. Victims have reported losing substantial sums of money, with one man named Wang Zhuang paying over 300,000 yuan in betrothal gifts alone, plus an additional 400,000 to 500,000 yuan in total expenses including wedding ceremonies [1]. In another case, the agency used hostesses from a karaoke establishment as bait to defraud 128 victims of over 2.5 million yuan [1].
The scale of such fraud has drawn official attention. Between January 2024 and March 2025, prosecution authorities handled 1,546 criminal cases related to the matrimonial industry [1]. A recent nationwide crackdown has been launched to combat these schemes [1]. The vulnerability of victims is amplified by a demographic imbalance in China, where there are approximately 30 million more men than women [1]. One victim, Xu Rulin, and his father spent nearly 500,000 yuan preparing for their son's marriage only to have his bride abandon the family after fewer than two weeks [1].
The agency's management has dismissed concerns, claiming that "over 90 percent of our clients' information is authentic" [1]. However, legal experts have identified a significant gap: lawyer Fan Binghe points out that Chinese law lacks specific criminal definitions addressing matrimonial fraud [1].