[Hyung-ui's Creator World]
Sweet words that don't make sense logically
Beware of showing off money and connections with excessive gifts
Scammers exploit the desires of their victims

It was written on 2023.11.02.written article.

Recently, 'he' has decorated the first screen of all social media. When you turn on YouTube, there were news or interviews related to him, and on Instagram, there were memes related to the words 'I AM Shinrye', which he used to act as a Korean diaspora.

'He' is Jeon Cheongjo. A woman who played 'a man who is an illegitimate child of Paradise Hotel, has a balance of 51 trillion won in a domestic bank account, and is learning fencing to duel with Elon Musk'. Ah, this is dizzying.

Jeon Cheongjo first appeared to the public in an exclusive interview published by Woman Chosun a week ago, <Fencing Nam Hyun-hee & 15 years younger chaebol third-generation Jeon Cheongjo, first public release of their meeting, love affair, and marriage story>. After seeing the marriage article, Jeon Cheongjo's classmates from Ganghwado, who were said to be born in New York, appeared in droves, and revealed that he was a woman, had a history of fraud and had already been in prison for over two years, and had even gotten married twice, alternating between men and women. The public, who had already experienced the 'Nancy Lang and Wang Jin-jin' fraud marriage case, actively sent messages of truth to Nam Hyun-hee, and it seemed that Nam Hyun-hee was rescued.

The realities revealed after the first article were even more melodramatic. Nam Hyun-hee claimed that she thought he was a transgender, and that she believed she was pregnant because he had received a testicular transplant. As his identity was revealed, fraud victims began to emerge, including Nam Hyun-hee's relatives, as well as YouTuber Roalnam's students and his acquaintances, who said that they had given a total of over 1 billion won to Jeon Cheongjo as an investment.

Logically, a transgender cannot have a child, and the estimated wealth of Lee Jae-yong, chairman of Samsung, the top chaebol in Korea, is 10 trillion to 11 trillion won, so it is impossible for the world not to know about a person with 51 trillion won, which is more than that. This is something you can figure out if you just think about it for a second, but everyone was fooled.

What was his strategy to blind people's judgment and eyes? It was simple. A Signiel and a Bentley, bodyguards and drivers, a flurry of gifts, boasting about connections like 'the brother of a friend of a friend', the title of a future bridegroom of a former national team player, and a fake bank account balance, etc.

I was also worried while watching YouTube these days. On YouTube, there are many cases where people are gathered using 'good houses and cars' that are not fact-checked or reference-checked, and then they sell private lectures to those gathered and lead to investment solicitations, which seemed dangerous. Of course, there are real people among them, but to avoid encountering a second Jeon Cheongjo, we need to remember the 'scammer precautions'.

First, beware of being lured by a nice house + a nice car. There are too many people who rent a luxury apartment to make a 'quick buck'. They often rent expensive apartments to meet wealthy people in the apartment community or to create an image of wealth by having meetings at the luxury apartment lounge. You can also rent a foreign car by leasing it for 1.5 million won a month, so you shouldn't believe what you see.

Second, beware of excessive gift giving. Even 'gold diggers' use the strategy of spending money first. They often give excessively to gain trust. Remember that Jeon Cheongjo and Lee Hee-jin, who scammed as a stock tycoon in Cheongdam-dong, both chose 'celebrity' women, showered them with gifts, seduced them, and used their fame as a tool of trust to commit fraud.

Third, beware of excessive bragging about money. I've met a few people who say they have 'trillions'. I just laughed at what they said, but I was surprised to see how many people believed them. This time, Jeon Cheongjo forged an 'American Express Black' card, which is only issued to those with assets of 19.1 billion won or more, the top 0.001% in the world, and used it to show off his wealth and lure investors. If someone brags about money excessively, you should be suspicious.

Fourth, beware of people shrouded in mystery. I don't trust people who haven't been properly verified, who don't know what they're doing, and who don't come up in searches. Both Jeon Cheongjo and Wang Jin-jin played the role of a hidden illegitimate child of the Paradise Group. Beware of people who seem shrouded in mystery and are not clear about what they're doing.

Finally, fifth, beware of people accompanied by bodyguards and drivers. This is a typical role-playing for scammer types. They show off by bringing bodyguards and drivers, but don't fall for the act. Both the bodyguards and drivers are in on the act together. The last person I saw doing a performance with bodyguards is now in jail. Beware of the play.

So far, I've talked about scammer precautions, but if you watch Netflix's 'Inventing Anna' (the story of Anna Delvey, a German heiress who scammed her way into the hearts of New York's elite), you'll see that even intelligent people from New York's elite fall for the scam. Even the smartest people can easily be tricked if a scammer sets their sights on them. If a scammer has set up a proper stage, they will hire all the people around them as actors, and this is particularly scary. Like the way a cult group is infiltrated, if Team A fails, they will then be infiltrated by Team B, Team C, and stronger team members. So, if a scammer targets you once, it can be difficult to break free.

Coming back to the point, when you look at social media these days, there are too many stories about 'money'. There's no way to tell who's real among people who show off their wealth and show unverified account balances to deceive others. People who show off luxury apartments + luxury cars and then sell something else, this is very similar to the typical multi-level marketing recruitment technique. When you join a multi-level marketing company, they first show you 'pictures of people on a cruise ship' who have succeeded through that multi-level marketing company. Then, they show you a bank account with money deposited into it... It's a predictable repertoire. And people easily fall for it. Don't be fooled, and look again with your eyes wide open.

Through the Jeon Cheongjo case, the entire nation was able to study the strategies of 'scammers'. However, this type of scammer will continue to appear, and people will fall for it. Humans are not free from the weaknesses of 'greed' and 'vanity', and 'they' know our shortcomings and will fill them in a spectacular way.

It is more important to remember this truth than to be able to tell a scammer apart, 'in order to protect yourself'. 'There's no such thing as a free lunch'.

All the luxury goods, houses, and cars that Nam Hyun-hee eventually received were from her relatives and acquaintances. She was shamed by having her shameful secret exposed to the world in exchange for receiving it. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Don't be fooled by the attitude of 'I don't like free things'. Everyone, stay alert.