SINGAPORE – If “Li Nanxing” messages you on Instagram and desires to borrow cash from you, ignore “him”.
The native actor alerted his followers in a Fb publish on Tuesday (Jan 18): “Hello everybody, simply to tell the general public that our Instagram account LNXGLOBAL_OFFICIAL has been hacked final night time.
“Kindly don’t reply to every other Instagram publish. We are going to strive our greatest to revive it as quickly as attainable.”
The 57-year-old instructed Chinese language-language night each day Shin Min Every day Information that the incident occurred at about 2am on Tuesday when he found that he couldn’t achieve entry to his Instagram account.
He was knowledgeable by his pals later that somebody had used his title in an try to borrow cash.
“Luckily, that good friend was not tricked, however the sum of money requested was substantial,” he stated, including that it was $40,000.
The veteran actor stated this was the primary time his Instagram account had been hacked in an tried rip-off.
He determined to make the general public announcement as he was involved that different pals may very well be focused.
Li – often called the “Ah Ge” or Large Brother of the native leisure scene – additionally acquired an e-mail from a stranger, who instructed him to name a sure quantity if he needed to get his Instagram account again.
The e-mail was despatched below the title “Akil la”, with the quantity starting with +44, the nation code for Britain.
Li, who just lately starred within the Channel 8 drama The Peculiar Pawnbroker, has simply accomplished filming a dialect drama serial, I Need To Be A Towkay.
He instructed Shin Min he was initially on account of fly to Europe for a product-endorsement job, however the journey could also be delayed to March because of the outbreak of the Omicron Covid-19 variant.