'Maria Ozawa' dupes lustful Pinoy men on Facebook

In a clear case of not thinking before clicking, many hot-blooded Filipino men rushed to answer a popular adult film star's apparent casting call for her next movie without realizing that they may have been duped by what seems to be a fake account.

Ozawa's Philippine trip  

On December 22, Japan-based adult movie star Maria Ozawa left a cryptic message on the wall of her official Facebook account, saying simply: "hello philippines".

 

In the following days, Ozawa posted photos of an apparently recent trip to the Philippines —including a picture of her leaning out of a traditional Filipino calesa horse-driven carriage.

 

But other than the photos, Ozawa has kept mum about her stay in the Philippines.

 

That is, until "Maria Ozawa" showed up.

'Maria Ozawa' doppelganger  

In a follow-up comment appended to the original "hello philippines" wall post, "Maria Ozawa" informed her avid Filipino fans that she "bought a (Globe SIM card) yesterday" and encouraged them to message her via SMS or via her "prvte fb" account.

 

But upon closer inspection, the "Maria Ozawa" account was just set up on December 28 and only has less than 20 Facebook friends —all of them apparently Filipino males— in the few hours since it was created. 

 

The "Maria Ozawa" Facebook account is completely different and separate from Ozawa's official Facebook account, "Ozawazone".

Suspect casting call  

The suspect nature of the doppelganger account seems to have been lost on online Pinoys, especially when "Maria Ozawa" gave a shoutout for Filipino males to sign up for her next movie.

 

"audition will be on january 2012..." "Maria Ozawa" said, resulting in a flurry of replies from hot-blooded fans.  The unverified activity of the "Maria Ozawa" account has even caused the name to become a trending topic on Twitter as of the afternoon of December 28.

 

Apparently, nobody bothered to check on the veracity of the "Maria Ozawa" account, nor even wondered why a tech-savvy Japan-based celebrity with a prominent social media presence would go to the trouble of picking up a foreign SIM card to communicate with her Philippine fans in the first place. — TJ Dimacali, GMA News