Sunrise host David Koch has lashed out over online fraudsters who used his image and fake quotes to steal $30,000 from a viewer, demanding they be stopped.
Koch said he was contacted by the victim who was fooled by an online ad using a fake endorsement for a dodgy crypto investment platform.
‘I had a bloke on the weekend contact me through Facebook, abusing me because he had lost $30,000 on a scam that used my picture and dodgy comments from me,’ he said.
Sunrise host David Koch (pictured left) has revealed a viewer was taken in by scammers using his image and fake quotes
Koch said online scammers frequently used him as a lure due to his public profile and asked his guest, Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones, what the government was going to do about it.
‘Scammers have been using my photo and dodgy quotes from me to scam people for years,’ he said on Monday morning.
‘They appear on Facebook, they appear on LinkedIn, they appear on that Taboola feed on big mainstream websites and I can’t do anything about it.’
Koch demanded Mr Jones explain what could be done about this.
‘Here at Channel Seven, we get sued by you and the ACCC if we run a dodgy ad,’ he said.
‘Why can’t Facebook and Instagram and LinkedIn take the same responsibilities as mainstream media groups?
‘It’s just heartbreaking for our viewers that get sucked in by these sorts of things.’
Koch says that scammers have been using his image and making up quotes from him for years
Mr Jones admitted the…
