Man in China caught giving spycam make-up mirrors as ‘gifts’ to women and encouraged them to use while ‘naked’
- A man in China has been arrested after gifting a work colleague a vanity mirror containing spy cameras
- One recording on a memory card in the mirror was marked ‘2019’, indicating there may have been other victims
A man in China has been arrested after giving a make-up mirror with a hidden spycam to a live-streamer as a gift and encouraging her to use it while naked.
The man, surnamed Zhang, from Guangdong province in southern China, is accused of illegally modifying, selling and using hidden cameras. Zhang is a hidden camera expert who runs an online store selling modified candid camera devices, having sold at least 210 similar spycam devices to date.
He was found out when he sent a make-up vanity mirror to a live-streamer surnamed Li who is an acquaintance from his workplace.
Despite only knowing each other for a few months, Zhang convinced Li to accept the mirror as a gift.
Zhang told Li to keep the mirror plugged in and turned on for 24 hours a day, claiming it was to prevent the circuit board from catching on fire. Li found this claim to be strange but was not overly concerned until Zhang later told her that a feature of the mirror was using it to apply make-up while naked, something which he called ‘nude beauty’.
A disturbed Li contacted the product seller who advised her to check if there were cameras placed inside the mirror.
“When I took it apart, I found there were four high-definition pinhole cameras and five 32G memory cards inside,” Li said in an open letter she published online.