A self-proclaimed female prostitute has been found to be a married man intending to gain popularity by fabricating stories on the Internet from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, according to local police.

Police, who only revealed the man's surname Lin, said he pretended to be a prostitute named Ruo Xiao'an on a Sina Weibo. But, Lin, father of a son, currently works as the chief editor of a cultural media corporation in Zhejiang, police said.

Lin was given an administrative warning and a 500-yuan fine. "By cheating the public with fabricated facts, Lin has disrupted social order and caused adverse impacts," a spokesperson of the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau told the Global Times on Wednesday.

Titled "from the bottom of society, post-1980s generation, a sex worker in Hangzhou" on Sina Weibo, Ruo Xiao'an had gained nearly 200,000 followers since January after the fake diary about the life of a sex worker began. Police said the content was mostly stolen from foreign literature.

"It's late at night, the client has left. It was a single man. It's a pity that he only belonged to me for a short time instead of all night. His cigarettes tasted sweet. The rain is heavy outside. I wonder if he will remember me when he gets home," Ruo posted in one of "her" 401 entries.

Ruo claimed she had thousands of clients over seven years, ranging from government officials, to university professors and local celebrities.

All Ruo's posts had been deleted by on Wednesday and the user name of the Weibo address has been changed to "kugilygil."

"If his action did result in a negative impact on society, he violated the law and regulations, and may have committed a crime," Li Song, a lawyer specializing in network security for the Shengfeng Law Firm based in Beijing, told the Global Times on Wednesday.

"While in this case, we haven't seen any influence on society. It's hard to say if he did disturb social order," he said.

However, he pointed out that if his posts online contained sexual content that would be illegal.