When a fraudster utilized her Facebook pictures to setup fake online dating sites accounts, Lana Price assumed that the internet sites will be willing to assist her stop them. As it happens, she couldn’t have already been more wrong
By Kara Gammell
Whenever Lana Price* received a text from a buddy in London saying he would seen her photos on Tinder, she assumed it had been a tale.
It wasn’t until her friend delivered her a screen shot of a lady known as ‘Lilly’ in the dating application that she started initially to worry.
The Cardiff-based 27-year-old had never opened a Tinder account and hadn’t gone to London for months, so there ended up being no mistaking that it was an imposter.
“I was horrified”; she said. “Every second that passed, I became more concerned about exactly just what harm this fraudster might be doing to my image”.
Lana is self-employed along with her facebook that is professional profile connected to her individual one, therefore just deactivating her account wasn’t an alternative, since it would harm her company.
In addition to this, she actually is in a relationship. So some body located in London and making use of her image to attract males, made her feel profoundly uncomfortable.
“we hate the idea of males taking a look at my photo and reasoning we’m seeking to attach. If my friends have experienced these reports with my face on it, whom else has?
“I’m currently in a relationship, the very last thing I’d be doing is searching for a dating website. Continue reading