Naga Munchetty: Scammers spread fake nude pictures of me on social media

The pretend article about me steered I had been detained by the federal government following a “controversial” interview on ITV’s This Morning, the place I allegedly gave particulars a couple of “profitable loophole” to earn money.

It was made to seem like a BBC Information article, full with emblem and branding, and it contained hyperlinks to a rip-off cyber buying and selling web site, which has now been taken down after my manufacturing crew reported it to the BBC authorized crew.

I am not the primary high-profile face for use by scammers to trick individuals out of their hard-earned cash.

My fellow 5 Reside presenter and Cash Saving Skilled, Martin Lewis, has beforehand spoken out about his face getting used to entrance cryptocurrency scams.

Wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham advised me he first noticed pretend articles about himself showing on social media two years in the past.

He lately opened an account with Bluesky and inside hours noticed pretend accounts re-posting these scams from different platforms.

Packham mentioned the posts on Bluesky have been a bit extra refined in that scammers set pretend accounts, discovered individuals inside his skilled circle and contacted them asking for donations in the direction of a non-existent “conservation fund”.

“What they’re doing right here is taking the authority, the integrity, the credibility of the BBC and, not in an conceited means, ourselves,” he mentioned.

“It is terribly offensive and worrying, I detest the thought susceptible individuals may doubtlessly be exploited [by my image].”