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Scam alert: fake Post article featuring Hong Kong movie star Donnie Yen promotes online trading tools
- The fake article featured fictitious excerpts of an interview with Yen by the US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel
- The article suggested an editor at the Post had successfully used the trading platform
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Scammers have published a fictitious article with the appearance of a South China Morning Post story and a reporter’s byline to promote two online financial trading tools.
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The fake article, hosted on a non-existent website and circulated on social media, featured fictitious excerpts of an interview with Hong Kong movie star Donnie Yen by the US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
In the fake interview, reference was made to the online trading apps, which purportedly have addresses in Singapore. The article also suggested an editor at the Post had successfully used the trading platform.
The report is categorically fake, the Post said.
The images embedded in the article were screenshots of a real interview between Yen and Kimmel, which took place in March 2023, when Yen was promoting his role in the movie John Wick: Chapter 4.
A similar incident occurred in 2022, when scammers created a fake news report claiming Tesla boss Elon Musk had launched an investment scheme specifically for Hong Kong people, which also used the Post’s logo, design and a reporter’s byline.
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