Scams, scams, and more S-C-A-M-S, and this one, out of the lips of a preacher too!!! From the Front Page Sections, translated…
A South Korean pastor, Wu was suspected of entering the hospital and selling to the woman who has terminal cancer a “drink that will cure you completely”, the woman spent a lot of money to buy it, and, ten days later, she’d still passed away; her father believed that Wu was using religion to scam, and called the police. The police took the drink and had it analyzed, and found, that they were ginseng drinks, they’d arrested Wu, and his female accomplice, Chang based off of fraud.
The pastor, Wu (age 51) and Chang (age 47) denied having sold the item, said that they were merely, buying up the products on others’ behalf, after the D.A. in Kaohsiung interviewed them both, the D.A. set the bails for $30,000N.T. each.
The police investigated and found, that a little over two years ago, Chang started casing out people with cancer, had Wu shown up to their places, to “pray and bless” the individuals, and invited them to the church, and used the opportunity, to sell health foods to them, claimed, “from Korea, very famous, made with the precious ingredient of taxol, you will make a full recovery after use”; there were even flyers from the church, and had the “witness woman” from Korea claim that she’d been diagnosed with a dozen cancers and now, she’d been cured, that she’d become cured solely, off of faith, encouraging the people who were diagnosed, to have their wills to survive.
Ding, because she was diagnosed with cancer last year on January 7th, she checked into the hospital, Wu and Chang dodged the doctors and the families, visited her at the hospital, and used the advantage, of sell the drinks to her, claimed, “you are guaranteed to be cured of cancer, you will definitely get better, God is on your side”. Ding ended up spending over $168,000 N.T.s on eight months’ worth of drinks, drank four packets every day, she’d drank for ten days, was sent to the hospice, then she passed away.
Ding’s father suspected that Wu had scammed for money, Wu was willing to give the money back, but asked Ding’s father to sign an affidavit, but because the affidavit said that the responsibilities of death is on his daughter, the father refused to sign, and said he was going to call the police, then, Wu had, returned the money. Ding was displeased at how Wu took advantage of the ill, to sell items to them, and that he’d brought even more pain to the family members of those who were diagnosed with cancer, as well as the cancer patients themselves, he’d reported it to the police.
And so, this still sheds some light into human nature, don’t you think? When you’re about to die, you would be willing to, grab on to the slightest hope that can help you evade death, which is why this woman was, so vulnerable to scams.