In recent years, there has been a growing demand for market services for marriage brokers, but there has also been a proliferation of criminal activity. On 17 april, journalists were informed by the supreme prosecutor that, between january 2024 and march 2025, the public prosecution service had dealt with 1,446 persons who had committed crimes in the marriage media sector. Cases of fraud committed by outlaws in the name of marriage brokers, the illegal involvement of individual marriage agencies in foreign marriages, and the fact that some marriage websites have even become a conduit for crime are found to be pressing for governance and regulation。
According to the chief inspector, the marriage agency currently has a registration and establishment model, with no pre-screening and no mandatory national criteria for the qualifications of marriage brokers. In practice, a number of marriage agencies carry out fraud under the guise of “regularly qualified marriage agencies” and “professional intermediaries”。
In the case of a five-person fraud by the public prosecution service. Some of wang's clients, emphasizing that their marriage agency was a regular company, that there were video recordings of the whole matchmaking process, had repeatedly introduced married women to customers, obtained the trust of the victim in the form of verbal promises, letters of agreement, etc., and induced six victims to pay $890,000 in gifts and introduction fees. In another case handled by the public prosecutor's office, zhang has registered the establishment of a cultural media company limited to find female workers from ktv and bars as “nuptries” and has defrauded 128 victims of over $2. 5 million。
It is worth noting that some marriage agencies and marriage websites do not scrutinize the information of registered members and that some of the outlaws defraud themselves. Like the prosecution in a fraud case. A person who conceals the fact that he or she is married and has given birth, meets the victim and develops a relationship on a marriage website, fabricates investment projects, hospitalization of parents, death of the mother, etc., and defrauds the victim of 3 million yuan。
Under the relevant provisions, domestic marriage agencies and any other unit may not engage in or pretend to engage in foreign marriages. However, some marriage agencies and individuals engage in foreign marriages in violation of the law in order to obtain a high fee. There are cases of bogus business visits, travel abroad, visas for persons in the country, arrangements for their departure from the country to match foreign nationals, short-term visas for foreign nationals, and even visits to the country through smuggling。
For example, the public prosecution service handles cases of trafficking in women, organizing others to cross the border, fraud, etc. In the event that some 46 foreign women are trafficked into the country, they are sold, knowing that some of them are in a de facto union, to a large number of single men for a profit of $1. 330,000。
The officer-in-charge also noted that some criminal groups, such as telecommunications fraud and investment fraud, had targeted victims through their marriage websites, diverted victims to other websites or to apps, inducing victims to constantly transfer money and money. In the case of the public prosecution service, for example, a fraud committed by a certain person. After pretending to be a successful man on a social platform for dating and friends, chen lured him into gambling under the control of the fraud company's “real wins international gaming website” and, through the control of the station, over $8. 47 million was stolen from 26 victims。
The public prosecution service reminds that a healthy market environment for marriage-related services needs to be created by the regulatory authorities, marriage-related agencies and consumers. The marriage agency shall operate in good faith and shall consciously comply with the provisions of the law and provide quality marriage mediation services. The public at large needs to develop the right vision of friendship, marriage and love, rational choice of marriage agencies, and awareness-raising, such as detection of offences committed by marriage agencies, timely representation to the authorities concerned and defence of their legitimate rights and interests。
