A Netizen Paid S$930 For An Injection At A Ningbo Hospital After Seeing A Fake Ad Featuring Ada Choi
Ada has since released a statement to say that she's never sought treatment from that hospital.
Fake online ads that claim that a celeb uses their products or services are ethically wrong and also very common in showbiz.
Recently, a netizen shared that she was convinced to get treatment for an unspecified condition by a hospital in Ningbo after she seeing their ad that featured Hongkong actress Ada Choi.
The hospital had advertised Ada as one of their successful patients, and it instilled enough confidence in the netizen to fork out 4500 yuan (S$930) for a single injection.
However, the netizen felt a great deal of pain and discomfort after the jab, which led her to complain about her terrible experience online.
Ada soon caught wind of the netizen's post and she swiftly issued a statement through her company saying she has never received any sort of treatment in Ningbo.
The statement added that the hospital will be held accountable if they are found to have marketed themselves using Ada’s name. They also revealed that the hospital had already been punished for violating medical regulations.
While some netizens were sympathetic towards the netizen who got duped, others weren’t as kind and said that she was a “fool for believing such blatant lies”.
As one netizen said: “Ada lives in Shanghai. If she needed treatment for something, she’d receive it in the best hospital in Shanghai, and not a small city like Ningbo.”
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