A Taichung pawnshop stopped a woman from borrowing NT$2 million to hand over to online investment scammers, a rare save in a fraud pattern that keeps working.

• The woman believed she was being coached by Nvidia's Jensen Huang, who supposedly added her on LINE and promised "financial freedom."
• Everything was fake — the celebrity account, the investment teacher, the chat group members, and the profits shown on the trading platform.
• She was about to pawn property for the cash when the pawnshop owner sensed something was wrong and called police.
• Officers had to walk her through past cases before she accepted it was a scam; at first she refused to believe them.

Outlook: The celebrity-endorsement playbook — famous name, group chat showing fake gains, pressure to add more money — is likely to keep spreading as AI figures become the bait of choice.