Saturday Morning chef James Martin has issued an urgent warning to his fans.
He discovered that scammers were using his name and image on social media. On social media, James warned: “FAKES AND SCAMMERS… please read…
“I want to say a few important words about scammers. My team and I are seeing increasing numbers of fake ‘James Martin’ accounts, web pages and alleged management/PR Manager accounts.
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“My team is blocking and reporting multiple accounts across social media daily. Many have been closed.
“However, new ones pop up all the time. They scrape images and content from my official accounts, in many cases, in an attempt to look legitimate.”
(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
He continued: “The accounts and pages shown here are just a small selection of what we have seen and reported lately. As I have posted before… neither my management team or me will ever ask you to follow a ‘private fans page’, target you with requests via comments you leave on posts, ask you to transfer money, send personal information or buy vouchers etc.”
James’ message added: “I do not endorse the product shown in the pics here and I do not have a Telegram account or a ‘private fans page’. Please only follow my official accounts.
“My Meta accounts have blue ticks and you can check links to all my official accounts via the social media links shown at the bottom of my website,” reports Birmingham Live.
(Image: Getty Images)
“Please report and block any accounts or pages with suspicious posts, comments or direct messaging activity. Above all, stay safe and please do not give personal information to accounts like these.”
One Instagram user responded: “Could I suggest you don’t put a fake account as first pic on your post? as when I saw it seeing post was from you I thought you were advocating first pic as yours!
“It was only when reading your long post did I understand! Thanks for bringing this to our attention though!” Another follower added: “Hand in hand with @jamesmartinchef here. It’s rife at the moment. Please be vigilant.”
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
