CHANGSHA, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Police in central China's Hunan Province, have broken up a telecom and online fraud ring, detaining 138 suspects, who had disguised themselves as beautiful women to sell substandard products online.

The police confiscated 108 computers and over 400 mobile phones involved in the case and had more than 400,000 yuan (about 56,600 U.S. dollars) frozen, said a source of the public security of Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan, Tuesday.

The scammers, who disguised themselves as beautiful women, used social media platforms to establish romantic relationships online and win the trust of victims, before peddling substandard goods to them, such as tea, ginseng, alcohol, according to the source.

The case is under further investigation. Enditem

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