A widow in southern Kien Giang Province has spent billions of dong in an effort to save her only daughter's marriage from falling to pieces.

Phuong, who is also a successful businesswoman in Hon Dat District, was so sad to learn that her only daughter's marriage did not go well. The daughter was usually in conflict with her husband and they decided to be separated for a while.

The mother desperately thought that she must do something to improve the situation. She asked her neighbour, Du Thi Thu Trang, who claimed that the marriage was cursed and that Phuong's daughter would never be happy in marriage life unless Phuong found a shaman to exorcise it.

Trang promised to help seeking a good shaman, and told Phuong to give her money, from several million to hundreds of millions during the past year, as the cost.

However, the more shamans were invited, the more terrible the daughter's marriage went. Only when a local people's court announced the divorce of her daughter several weeks ago did Phuong realise that she had been a victim of fraud.

The money that she gave to the neighbour had reached more than VND3 billion (US$135,000).

The swindler was arrested after that for fraud and misappropriating another person's property.

Maybe Phuong has learnt a lesson herself. Don't believe in any magic as a way of improving a relationship.