Radio presenter discovers her photos are being used on fake dating profile ‘looking for fun’

UK: 26-year-old radio presenter Emma Louise Jones was shocked to discover her photos had been used on fake dating sites profile saying she was “looking for fun”. Emma found her photos on different social media and dating sites across the country claiming she is an air stewardess.


One of the fake profiles, claims she was working at Morrisons, and also suggested she was looking to share “great times” and wants to date but doesn’t want “anything serious”.

Emma who is a co-presenter of a breakfast show on Viking FM in Hull, East Yorks, said she doesn’t know if it was just one person or a number of different people who had been pretending to be her.

“It has happened on a few occasions that they have sent me a profile with me on it under a different name, like a screenshot after they have seen it on Tinder or one of their friends has come across it” she said.

“Basically, they have said I am in different professions and that I am ‘looking for fun’.

“On the most recent one, I am called Anna and I work at Morrisons.

“On a Tinder one, I am 22, which is quite flattering.

“They have used my photo on that.

“There’s one that says I am waiting to share ‘great times’ and I want to ‘date but nothing serious’. Oh, and I’m an air steward on that one.”

Emma said she is worried and don't know far the deception will go.

Emma whose Facebook profile has been set on private still struggles to report several fake accounts used in her name and photos.

“What kind of bizarre person thinks ‘oh what I will do is I will pretend to be somebody else on a profile and try to get a date with people’ because that person is never going to turn up, so where are they going to take it? How far are they going to go with it?

“You don’t know if it is a random person who does this daily to lots of different people or if it somebody who has a vendetta against you.”

“I used to think to myself ‘God I am walking around and who knows what I have said to these people’. Anyone walking around me, I could have been speaking to them.

“It did worry me a little bit. At first, I laughed it off, but after the second or third one, I was a bit concerned about the fact that they could be saying anything to anybody and you just don’t know.

“Then if you pass someone in the street, for all I know that person who has been pretending to be me could have been saying anything to that person.

“It is really weird. For all I know, there could be a few more floating around but it is nice that people have gone out of their way to message me.”