Scammer Posed as Li Nanxing to Borrow $1,800 from a Fan

Whenever I take the lift from my office building, I’ll see Li Nanxing.

He’ll tell me repeatedly to 别慌。别信。别给。

In other words, Don’t Panic, Don’t Believe and Don’t Give.

While I’m more excited to watch Black Heart Awards and often wonder if Mei Liang Xin (梅梁新) would finally have a chance to complete his thank-you speech, I’m reminded again and again by Yan Fei – I mean, Li Nanxing – that phone scams are getting more outrageous with sophisticated acting skills.

You’ve no idea what I’m talking about? Here, take a look at this.

There’s a TV panel at our lift lobby with advertisements, and this is one that has been playing in a loop for what seems like forever.

I’m 99.999% sure that if anyone dares to scam anyone from our office building, they’ll refer him or her to Yan Fei.

Of course, we know a lot about online scam. Just like Li Nanxing, we’ve done videos to raise awareness for scams as well, like this, which is in collaboration with the Singapore Police Force to advise viewers about a WeChat scam:

Okay, so what has all these got to do with this article?

Simple. Someone impersonated, of all people, Li Nanxing, to borrow money.

In other words, a scammer posed as Li Nanxing lah.

The scammer created an Instagram account, @lnxglobal_personal, put Li Nanxing’s picture as its profile picture and apparently tried to borrow $1,800 from a Li Nanxing fan.

According to Shin Min Daily News, the fan got suspicious immediately. She requested the fake profile to take a video for her, and that “scared” the scammer off.

The fan then alerted real Li Nanxing account, who prompted alerted his fans about the scam with these Instagram images:

Accompanying the image was these Chinese words: 非常感激这位粉丝！以上是我们的对话，我要再次声明 @lnxglobal_personal 不是我的帐户，请大家要小心！

Translation: “Appreciate this fan who alerted me about this! The image is of our conversation: I’ll like to reiterate that @lnxglobal_personal isn’t my account. Please don’t fall for the scam!”

Now, if you’re confused, here’s a summary: Li Nanxing has a talent management agency and it’s called LNX Global. Li Nanxing is of course the face of the company, which also manages Constance Song.

@lnxglobal_official is the real account, with well over 20.5K followers.

@lnxglobal_personal is the fake account, with 63 followers. This fake account is set to private and strangely still exists.

Scams Are Very Real

In 2017 alone, $99 million were lost to scams, and that didn’t include those that weren’t reported.

A total of 328 cases of email impersonation were reported in that year.

So, here’s the advice again: Don’t Panic, Don’t Believe and Don’t Give.

And one more: don’t loan money to scammers.

Now, if you’re like me, I’m pretty sure you’ve got one more question.

Li Nanxing is 54 years old this year. What has he been eating? He still looks 25 to me!

Now you know what Singaporeans are talking about today; do check back tomorrow for another piece of news of the day!