On October 15, 2018, Jason, 46, from New York, was drinking water at a hotel bar in Hong Kong when he saw an attractive girl enter.

"She sat at the table next to me, we made eye contact, she smiled," said Jason, a technology expert, about how he met Azura Luna Mangunhardjono when he was on a business trip in Hong Kong for a week.

Jason was about to divorce his wife and he could not take his eyes off the girl: seductive full lips, bobbing hair and a youthful face. "After a few minutes, I turned to ask, 'Can I introduce you something delicious here?' She said, 'I know this place very well. Do you have an appointment with anyone? If you go alone, Come sit with me ".

They then exchanged phone numbers and flirted with each other. A week after the first meeting, Azura invited Jason to return to Hong Kong, to his apartment on the 20th floor of Robinson Street, an upstream area that costs HK $ 100,000 (US $ 12,800) per square foot (one square feet equals 0.09 m2).

Azura said she is a princess in Indonesia, has a allowance of 150,000 USD a month and only travel by private plane. She owns 10% of the Four Seasons Hotel, where Jason has stayed. Azura family is among the top 10 richest people in Indonesia. Her mother was a lawyer who helped Bill Clinton to the election. Her father passed away and she inherited 30 million USD.

"She tells the story very well," Jason said. "There were times when I thought those things were crazy, but Azura made up for it because I couldn't find her on Google because she was so rich."

Another Azura lover, Robert, 59, told the same story. Azura told him that she had a very high IQ, attended countless boarding schools around the globe and had many friends from Harvard and Brown University. "Azura is a professional liar. Nobody is good at making you more comfortable than her," Robert said.

In late 2018, around the time Azura was flirting with Jason, Robert met Diane, who had known Azura since 2003 through Azura's ex-husband, Brad Kirk. Kirk took Azura from Bali to Hong Kong to live while he worked as a hotel manager here.

Diane described Azura as "well-dressed, but nothing special until she began to see the luxuries of Hong Kong elite". Diane had trouble with her association with Azura: Azura didn't return a picture she had borrowed, she sold the painting in Indonesia at "friendship prices" to support money for non-existent charities and forgot the card. credit when it's time to pay your restaurant bill. Diane broke with Azura 4 years ago.

At the end of 2018, Diane met Robert, who said he transferred Azura $ 150,000 to care for his seriously ill father by the end of 2017. Robert also transferred $ 30,000 to Azura for her charitable donation, but this amount was eventually not to the organization.

Diane and Robert later discovered the Ripoff Report website, allowing users to make anonymous complaints about companies or individuals. A complaint posted in December 2018 described Azura as one of the "biggest scammers" in Hong Kong, specializing in fabricating wealthy backgrounds to borrow money from acquaintances and not return it.

On December 22, 2018, Azura allegedly sold a fake diamond ring and slept with a customer to persuade him to buy it. Azura's former landlord in Hong Kong, Wellfine Properties, alleges that Azura owes $ 59,000 in rent. An organization based in Hong Kong Azura police reported not paying $ 21,800 for the item she auctioned. Abdul, owner of a luxury real estate leasing company in Paris, said Azura owed $ 43,500 in rent.

Lori, an old friend of Azura in Hong Kong, denounced she owed $ 65,000 in connection with a 22-carat pink diamond joint purchase deal since 2013. Another old friend said Azura owed $ 25,800 for alcohol. An assistant for 8 years Azura accused her of not paying $ 9,800. Even those who clean the carpets and sell flowers accuse Azura of debt. The total amount of Azura is estimated at more than half a million USD.

While Jason and Azura are dating, he discovered that Azura was arrested in the US in 2018 for allegedly selling counterfeit handbags. Sophia, a Los Angeles resident who bought $ 86,000 worth of handbags, believes the money will be used for charitable purposes. However, when Sophia brought 4 bags to check, the two stores said it was a fake bag.

Azura denied the allegations. The police could not accuse her until the manufacturer specialist confirmed it was fake. Azura was released on November 26, 2018.

Jason chose to trust Azura even though he read the charges on the Ripoff Report. Azura asked Jason to transfer the property to him to avoid having to divide it to his divorced wife and buy her a ring.

In January, Jason visited Azura in Paris. She introduced the 4-bedroom apartment as her home and the servant Sunita has worked for her family for 40 years. Jason realized he was cheated when Sunita admitted that she actually only knew Azura for a few weeks. She and her mistress had been in another place for a week but were fired for not paying, before moving into this apartment. "Everything is a lie," Sunita said. "Please end her."

An anonymous source on the Scamion website said that Azura's real name is Enjang Widhi Palupi, born in Kediri, East Java on October 27, 1978. Another person warned the public to immediately contact the local authorities when they caught her. "It is clear that Azura Mangunhardjono, an rogue from Indonesia, sought to manipulate and deceive to hurt not only individuals in Hong Kong, but also in London, Paris, Milan, Singapore, Jakarta, Los Angeles and New York ".

In August, Azura agreed to video chat with a SCMP reporter. She said she was in Luanda, Angola, to do charity. Azura insists he owes nothing to anyone but the landlord. But she explained that "the furniture in the Robinson Street apartment was stolen", she wrote a check to the landlord but they didn't get it.

Meanwhile, the landlord said that she had not paid the rent for several months so they were given permission to remove all of her belongings from the 20th floor apartment for rent to others and Azura did not contact them.

"I lost my parents when I was 11 years old. They were people who volunteered in East Timor, died of unintentional getting caught in a gunfight while protecting me from bullets," Azura told SCMP.

"My mother is from Gujarat, India, my father is Indonesian Chinese and Dutch. I was born in Germany. I have not lived anywhere in Indonesia except Bali, when I was with my ex-husband," Azura said.

In September, Azura traveled from the US to Hong Kong, meeting an SCMP reporter at a cafe. She repeatedly denied wrongdoing and said she was 5 months pregnant. The next day, her Instagram account showed she had arrived in Paris.

A message sent to Azura's WhatsApp chat application shows a gray mark: the message has been sent but has not been received yet. Maybe she changed the SIM. In his introduction on WhatsApp, Azura wrote: Para Bellum - Prepare for battle.