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Student horrified to discover her selfies are being used to lure men online

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Amelia on the left, her stolen pictures on the right (Picture: SWNS)

In case you’re not familiar with the MTV show, a ‘catfish’ is someone who creates fake personal profiles on social media sites – often online dating sites – using someone else’s pictures and a false bio.

It’s the kind of thing you don’t expect to happen to you. Amelia Perrin thought that too. Until it did.

The 19-year-old student and features editor of Royal Holloway’s student paper The Tab, says she first discovered people had been using her selfies to get jobs and attract men online when a photographer contacted her on Facebook.


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