Romance - Gezhu Pan
My friend *** *** first encountered the suspect Pan Gezhu on Tantan, a dating application, in approximately earlier 2026. The suspect presented himself as a legitimate businessman with interests in international e-commerce. His profile projected financial stability and personal warmth. Over a period of several weeks, he cultivated a consistent and attentive online relationship with the victim through the platform before migrating all communication to WhatsApp. My friend spoke of Pan Gezhu with increasing trust and affection. "She said he was different," the witness stated. "Attentive. Patient. He asked about her life, her stress about money, her family. He remembered things she'd mentioned weeks earlier. By the time he brought up the business idea, she already considered him a genuine romantic interest." Approximately 4 weeks after initial contact, Pan Gezhu introduced the victim to an e-commerce platform called luxurycounsel.com, presenting it as a dropshipping business opportunity through which she could generate supplementary income. He framed the introduction as an act of personal care, stating that he wanted to help her reduce the financial pressure she had shared with him in private conversation. Pan Gezhu claimed to operate a successful shop on the platform himself. My friend checked, online and it seems that the shop looked professional and legitimate, giving her no reason to doubt it. But she said to wait until meeting the guy offline. But without her request, he said a week later that he sponsored her with $50000, to open a shop for her. Then she set up this shop by curiosity, and as soon as it was set, fake orders Flood in within days, orders began arriving in her shop, making the business appear active and profitable. All of these orders were fabricated by the fraud operation — no real customers existed (after the scam was discovered). Each fake order required Mei to pay the manufacturer within 72 hours using cryptocurrency, or her reputation score and score of Pan Gezhu would drop. The constant countdown pressure stopped her from pausing to question what was happening. When Mei tried to contact buyers to confirm orders were real, the platform blocked all communication. She had no way to verify that any buyer, any product, or any transaction was genuine. Deposits keep growing each new batch of orders required larger crypto deposits to fulfil. The more she paid, the harder it felt to walk away from the business she believed she was building. When Mei tried to close her shop, the platform blocked every attempt with new procedural requirements. Shortly after, her account was frozen, all funds disappeared, and Pan Gezhu stopped responding entirely. Afterward, we found out that the same scam website exists under different names: Aelvy, Lavishlocs, Goyra, meetluxury, shoplocalis.