To the Twins Zhou, from the city of Harbin, China, were arrested for exchanging their passports and impersonating each other to travel abroad. According to a Chinese news website, the two did this 30 times before being caught by authorities.
The frauds began when Hong, one of the sisters, was denied a visa to Japan several times, preventing her from staying with her Japanese husband.
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After seeing her sister have her visa application denied several times, Wei, who already had a valid Japanese visa, lent her ID, as the two look very similar. Afterwards, Hong used the same method to return to China and even Russia, repeating this route at least 30 times. According to the police, Wei also used the passport sister to visit Thailand and some other countries.
After authorities discovered the identity switch, the two returned to China and became viral on social media in the country. In fact, a hashtag about her case has garnered more than 360 million views on Weibo, a platform similar to Twitter. Some users even hoped that they would end up on movie screens around the world, where the story would be told of how the twins managed to deceive the employees of the immigration.
Something curious about the case of the sisters is that they live in a country like China, where the government invests heavily in services and tools for monitoring its citizens. In 2018, for example, the state's facial recognition technology was already capable of scanning the faces of 1.4 billion citizens of the country.
In addition, the issue of strong border control measures has inhibited many travelers, especially due to the covid-19 pandemic. Thus, the fact that they managed to circumvent the system repeatedly seems like a lie.
