An unemployed 24-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years and nine months in prison for conning nine women out of 570,000 yuan ($93,537) by posing as a rich investor, a district court said Wednesday.

The defendant, surnamed Wu, was charged with fraud for scamming cash and valuables from women he met on dating websites from September 2010 to December 2012, according to a press release from Zhabei District People's Court. Police caught him in February.

Wu told his victims that he was a Chinese American and his mother owned a famous real estate agency, the court said. He claimed that he worked for a private investment fund and made 500,000 yuan a month.

Wu ran his biggest scam on a bank employee surnamed Zhang, whom he met when approached the bank for a business loan. He swindled Zhang out of 300,000 yuan in total.

His scams usually didn't pay off as well. In September 2010, he met a woman surnamed Xu on a dating website. He conned Xu out of a mobile phone and camera that were worth 4,000 yuan in total.

One month later, Wu met a woman surnamed Zhu on a dating website. He asked Zhu to transfer 11,000 yuan to a bank account on his behalf, claiming that he could not do the transaction because he did not have an account at a Chinese bank.