Police are looking into a surge of instances on the streets of the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, and the relatives of the victims are attempting to track down the criminals.
The blessing scam is a sophisticated form of illegal street theater. For a single audience—the unwitting victim—a group of three or more women perform a well-rehearsed Cantonese script.
Mungnee is a sixty-year-old Chinese Malaysian living in London. On her way to yoga, she was stopped by a sobbing woman on West London’s Harrow Road. In Cantonese, the woman inquired as to whether Mungnee was aware of any particular Chinese traditional healer in it.
