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AI-Generated Doctor: 65-Year-Old Woman Swindles Man Out of ₹21 Lakh in Dating Fraud.
- •In Shanghai, a 65-year-old woman used AI to pose as a 29-year-old doctor and swindled a businessman out of ₹21 lakh.
- •The woman, Yu Xiuzhen, maintained an active social media presence with 7,000 videos and 10,000 followers, portraying herself as a young doctor.
- •The victim, Liu Hui, hoped the woman's alleged hospital influence would help him secure engineering projects.
- •Yu never met Liu but extracted 1.70 lakh yuan (approx. ₹21 lakh) over five months under the guise of marriage and property.
- •Police investigation revealed Yu was a hospital cleaning staff member with a prior fraud record, using AI to alter her appearance and the swindled money for cosmetic treatments.
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In Shanghai, a 65-year-old woman named Yu Xiuzhen used artificial intelligence to present herself as a 29-year-old beautiful doctor. She posted thousands of AI-generated videos and photos over five years, convincing a property businessman named Liu Hui that she was a medical professional.
The victim transferred approximately 1.70 lakh yuan, which amounts to about 21 lakh rupees, to the fraudster over a period of five months under the promise of love and lucrative engineering business projects.
When police apprehended the woman, they discovered that she was born in 1961, had no medical qualifications, and actually worked as a cleaning staff member at a hospital. Furthermore, she had a prior criminal record and had previously been sentenced to four years in prison for fraud in 2009.
