Following rumor that a Chinese professional vanished near the Myanmar border, China’s consul in the Thai town of Chiang Mai has promised to look into the matter.
A social media post published later on Sunday said Chinese professional Wang Xing, also known by his step name Xing Xing, went missing in Mae Sot neighborhood in northern Thailand, which borders Myanmar’s Myawaddy, a city known as a gateway for fraud compounds.
The embassy stated that the family had not been aware of any regional police reports as of Monday afternoon.
It added that the missing actor’s family members contacted the embassy on Friday and received information on the steps for reporting lost people.
According to China Newsweek, Wang has entered Myawaddy and the Chinese ambassador in Myanmar is aware of the situation.
Wang was invited to take part in a video production in Thailand and landed in Bangkok, the country’s capital, early on Friday night, according to a post on social media app Weibo by a people claiming to be Wang’s girl.
According to the blog, Wang was allegedly led through Thai multiculturalism command by a person who appeared to be a part of the film crew.
Wang was immediately booked a hotel room near the airport when a claiming associate director of the movie called him, but later learned that it would be too soon to spend the night there and urged him to get there right away.
He was then driven to Mae Sot, some 500km ( 310 miles ) from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport, before he lost contact, according to the post.
The social media users claimed she contacted both the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok and the Chiang Mai consulate right away after reporting the incident to Shanghai officers.
She continued,” The embassy and consulate told her to review the situation to Mae Sot officers.”
Zhang Yixing, celebrity Jin Chen, and Dong Chengpeng, an actor and producer much known as Da Peng, were among the Chinese celebrities who carried the article.
Another professional, Xu Dajiu, shared his experience of being “fooled” into travelling to Thailand by what he called a “fake movie team” on Sunday and Monday.
Xu claimed in two separate Weibo videos that he discovered an ad for an actors ‘ group chat for a theatre that was shot in Thailand late last year. He claimed to have contacted the person who had posted the advertisement, and that he had received confirmation that he had been chosen for the position just four minutes later.
” After I got off the plane in Bangkok, the person who picked me up was trying to remove my id, but I refused. He therefore left along with the driver”, Xu said.
Xu further explained that the “film team” had to cancel his return trip after that.
” If you are coming to Thailand to labor, especially for play shooting, don’t travel. They are all fake, he claimed, adding that he had contacted the actual production’s director via Instagram and that the advertisement he saw was fake.
On December 30, authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou charged 16 Myanmar nationals with operating fraudulent structures that targeted Taiwanese people.
Myanmar-based swindlers lured Chinese people across the border to visit the compounds with promises of high-paying jobs, according to Procuratorial Daily, a paper work by China’s top attorney’s office.
Additionally, the gang is accused of operating sex trafficking and gambling.