Assistant of successful China influencer steals identities, earning US$158,000 in tips
Identity thief steals fashion content creator’s photographs; wears her pyjamas, stockings to stage lucrative live-streaming sessions
A fashion influencer with three million followers says her personal assistant is a con artist who stole her online profiles and pretended to be a student at Harvard University.
The influencer Chen Xin, who uses the handle @Daxin-kissis, accused her assistant of six years of faking an identity of a rich young Chinese woman studying at Harvard Medical School on January 24.
The woman, surnamed Jiang, allegedly used her employer’s password to enter her home, wore her luxury clothes, including stockings and pyjamas, and used her belongings for photographs.
Jiang also posted photographs Chen took but did not use for her own social media account, using artificial intelligence (AI) to replace Chen’s body with her own and sporting a heavily beautified face.
The woman is based in eastern China’s Zhejiang province and has never been abroad, also allegedly stole photographs of overseas student and changed her IP address to pretend she was studying in the United States.
Jiang also held a live-stream on the theme of “intelligent woman’s growth” in January, reportedly earning 1.14 million yuan (US$164,000) from tips.