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Older women on China’s TikTok are being scammed by flirtatious fake celebrities, highlighting a prevalent problem on the platform



When a 61-year-old woman in the southeastern province of Jiangxi found out she was being followed by TV star Jin Dong on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, she was elated. The woman was convinced that the 43-year-old actor was in love with her and she was ready to leave her family.There was just one problem: she was not interacting with the real Jin Dong.The story of the woman, who used the pseudonym Huang Yue on a local news programme, went viral online earlier this month. Huang had been…



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