Obviously, becoming a celebrity or public figure also means that your private life will no longer be private. Even family information or the lives of family members can easily be violated by toxic individuals.
That is also the reason why Jimin always tries to keep information about his family secret. But of course, bad people have more ways to do harm than he's prepared for. Jimin's father once had to speak up about the problem of many people pretending to be Jimin's younger brother to scam other fans.
Even though Jimin's father called for vigilance from fans, these people still continued their deceitful behavior and that made ARMYs continue to fear about possible incidents:
For many people, besides paying attention to their idols, information about their idol's family background and family members is also of great concern to them. Especially in the case of BTS - famous stars, their families receive even more attention.
Based on this psychological need, many people deliberately fake or release fake news about relatives and families of BTS members to receive attention from the public or manipulate the spirit of the crowd. Some may be fame-hungry, but some even harm their idols and family members with false and defamatory news.
Jimin's younger brother was the victim of this impersonation and its severity was so serious that Jimin's father had to speak up to protect his young son. Specifically, when discovering that there were too many large accounts impersonating the Instagram accounts of Jimin's younger brother and his family, Jimin's father posted an official post warning fans not to be fooled by scammers. This malicious impersonation.
These accounts have a large fan base and provide some information such as Jimin's younger brother's name and year of birth. They are real information but the account owner is not Jimin's younger brother. Not only that, these people also used other people's pictures to mislead followers into thinking that he was Jimin's younger brother. They even released a lot of inaccurate news like Jihyun having a girlfriend or working somewhere....
Jimin's father then emphasized that Jimin's family only has two official Instagram accounts: @zm_illennial_official and @magnate_official_. He hopes fans will not be fooled by the fake accounts he listed below. He wrote: "I'll say it again. Our official accounts are this account @zm_illennial_official and @magnate_official_. The three accounts in the picture are not Jimin's younger brother's, but all fake accounts. I hope you don't get fooled by the impersonation account. If you follow them, please unfollow".
Along with the post, Jimin's father also shared pictures of a few of the accounts impersonating Jihyun for fans to exclude them from their following list. In response to Jimin's father's warning, ARMYs shared this news so that other fans would not be fooled and called for careful attention in similar situations.
It can be said that being a celebrity is not easy and living the life of a celebrity is not easy either. Not only Jimin, BTS members but even their families are in trouble when too many people pay attention to them. Any act of impersonation, impersonation of family or BTS members themselves is a condemnable act. To not help malicious individuals do this, fans please report fake accounts and propaganda so that more people can be warned!