AN IRISH entrepreneur has warned women not to fall for Tinder Swindler-type con artists who are using his image in a sophisticated cryptocurrency scam.
James Blake, from Belfast, who runs a digital marketing company, says he is bombarded with messages on a daily basis from girls warning him that his identity is being used by online scammers.
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He told the Irish Sun: “It’s constant every day. There’s little you can do about it if someone is just using your picture but when I was alerted to the cryptocurrency angle it is a bit more sinister.
“It’s real Tinder Swindler stuff and I just want to warn anyone out there to report any messages they think they get from me. I’ve been contacted by hundreds of women around the world over this because it really is relentless.
The 29-year-old, who owns Vindicta Digital Marketing Agency, said he started being alerted to the scams about 12 months ago.
He revealed that most women eventually realise that that they are targets of online scammers and through Internet facial recognition services they are able to confirm James’s real identity.
In some cases just his picture is used with the fraudsters using different names, while in other circumstances his own is used.
James also added that…
