Grandma firmly believes that she is in an online relationship with the “Lu opera male god”. (Picture / flip from Weibo)
A 68-year-old grandma in Jiangxi, Mainland China, was targeted by criminals who pretended to be Lu opera actor Jin Dong when she was “swiping videos” on a short video platform three years ago. In the past three years, she has been sending money and sending gifts to her boyfriend. Even in order to send money to be a street sweeper and pick up recycling, even the police came to dissuade her, but grandma still firmly believed that she and Jin Dong were in a relationship.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, Grandma Ding’s daughter lamented that since her mother saw a short video of fake Jin Dong on the Internet, she believed that the fraudulent account was Jin Dong himself. Sifan didn’t want to think about it, and successively sent more than 30,000 yuan (about NT$130,000) to the other party, and even said: “Jin Dong is a very important person to me.”
In order to make the “male god” happy and hear the sweet words of “sister, sister, dear sister”, Grandma Ding has repeatedly disregarded her children’s persuasion. She not only used the hard-earned money in the past to send remittances and buy gifts, but also went to sweep the streets or collect money for recycling. . Although Grandma Ding’s children tried to block the scammer’s account, smashed the mobile phone, and called the police, the old man was still obsessed with it and firmly believed that “our hearts are connected together”, “Jin Dong is my very important person”, “Jin Dong has always been there Find me, he will be very happy if he finds me.”
After Jin Dong’s studio received the news that his grandma had been defrauded, he issued a statement emphasizing that Jin Dong did not open any short video platform accounts including Douyin, accusing the liar of impersonating his identity and violating the right to portrait and name. In addition, this is not the first time that Jin Dong’s identity has been faked. In 2020, a famous 61-year-old aunt shouted to marry Jin Dong, just because “Jin Dong confessed to me on the Internet.”
