Whenever a fraudster utilized her Facebook pictures to setup online that is fake accounts, Lana Price assumed that those sites will be willing to assist her stop them. As it happens, she couldn’t have already been more incorrect
By Kara Gammell
Whenever Lana Price* received a text from the close buddy in London saying he would seen her photos on Tinder, she assumed it absolutely was a tale.
It wasn’t until her friend delivered her a screen shot of a lady known as ‘Lilly’ from the dating application that she began to worry.
The Cardiff-based 27-year-old had never opened a Tinder account and hadn’t gone to London for months, generally there ended up being no mistaking that it was an imposter.
“I was horrified”; she said. “Every second that passed, I became more focused on exactly exactly what harm this fraudster might be doing to my image”.
Lana is self-employed and her facebook that is professional profile associated with her individual one, therefore just deactivating her account wasn’t an alternative, because it would harm her company.
In addition to this, she actually is in a relationship. So someone situated in London and making use of her image to attract males, made her feel profoundly uncomfortable. Continue reading My Facebook profile had been taken to have times on Tinder – and you’ll find nothing i could do