If a person calling himself Kevin Ong Siu-sin wants to be your friend, you may want to think twice.
According to people who have encountered him - with personas as varied as a former Goldman Sachs banker 'branching off on his own', a top Hong Kong barrister named Alexander Wang complete with court gown and wig, and an eminent New York plastic surgeon called Damien Wong - Ong will go to great lengths to befriend strangers and convince them to hand over their cash.
They say he will shamelessly drop names, speak to the managers of top bars as if they are old friends, all the while ordering champagne and cigars. He once even conducted a sham examination on a friend to convince someone he was a doctor, one says. But he just won't pay his bills.
Two websites have been set up to expose his methods and detail the money he has allegedly extracted from victims - primarily women - dating back to 2001. One person has now made a complaint to the police. Yet despite all that, and being officially bankrupt, it seems he is still continuing his ways in this free-wheeling city.
Anthony Lin made a report to police on September 30 about the experiences he and his friends had with Ong. They escaped relatively lightly, picking up the tab for two bottles of Grey Goose vodka at Lan Kwai Fong club Fever, and then a HK$3,400 bill from a long lunch for three at the exclusive Cococabana restaurant in Deep Water Bay.
Lin was introduced to 'David Wang', who said he was a high-flying banker who had just moved from Japan to Hong Kong, by friends who had met him while he smoked a cigar on the terrace outside hip Japanese bar and restaurant Zuma in Central one Friday night in September.
