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Elsa had just wrapped up her freshman year at Stanford when she got an unexpected Instagram message

from someone named Charles Chen.

I didn't really think anything of it because I had a lot of mutuals with him.

He had Stanford and his Instagram bio, so I sort of just assumed that he was a Stanford student.

And he had asked if we had met on campus before,

to which I obviously said no.

When Charles proceeded to ask if she spoke Mandarin,

it caught her off guard.

She did speak Mandarin.

But how did he know that?

I kept the conversation going and we talked about China and he was telling me to come to

China. He was offering to pay for my travel to China. He even sent a screenshot of a bank transaction

to prove that he could afford my travel to China. And then he was trying to get me to add him on WeChat,

which is a heavily monitored Chinese communication site.

For six weeks, Elsa kept the conversation going,

secretly taking screenshots of their DMs.

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