“Shanghai Female Master’s Student Says Internship Company Stole Her Identity and Made Her a Registered ‘Responsible Person’ (2026.05.08)”
Recently, a female master’s student in Shanghai posted a video alleging that the company where she interned for just one month used her personal information without her knowledge to register her as the company’s “financial officer” and “tax officer,” despite the fact that she had never signed a formal tripartite internship agreement.
She said she only discovered the issue after checking the company’s official registration records, where she found that she had been listed as a company official with potential legal liabilities.
According to her account, after leaving the company, she repeatedly asked for her name to be removed from the registration, but the company continuously delayed the process and demanded that she first pay accommodation fees, utility charges, and other expenses before agreeing to revoke her status.
She also accused the company of contacting her parents and falsely claiming that she owed the company money, pressuring her school, and even accessing chat records between her and a colleague in an apparent attempt to learn about her plans to report the company.