Woman shocked to find her Facebook pictures had been stolen and used as somebody else’s profile on Plenty of Fish dating website
- Karen Woodley was alerted that her Facebook pictures had been stolen
- Found that they had been used on a profile on dating site Plenty of Fish
- Pleaded with the mystery user to take down the profile with her pictures
- The 23-year-old wants to raise awareness of online privacy on social media
A young woman was shocked to find that pictures she had uploaded to her Facebook account had been stolen and used on someone else's profile on a dating website.
Karen Woodley was horrified when an old university classmate warned her one of his friends had been chatting to a girl online using her pictures.
The 23-year-old from Cheltenham then discovered her pictures on the Plenty of Fish website under the name of JodieWW.
Pictures that were stolen from the Facebook page of Karen Woodley, that appeared on a fake profile on dating website Plenty of Fish
And it was only when Miss Woodley confronted the user, who had stolen her
The occupational therapist, who has been in a relationship for two years,
'I couldn't believe it. And then I started to worry that if my pictures were on a dating site, where else could they be?
Miss Woodley became first aware that her pictures had been stolen after receiving a text message from friend James Chisholm.
He told her that one of his friends had been chatting to a girl on Plenty of Fish, whose profile had two pictures of
The friend even believed that he was going to meet up and go on a date with the woman, who said she was a 24-year-old
The dating site profile using Miss Woodley's pictures, which used the name JodieWW and had the catchline 'Looking for nothing
Miss Woodley only realised the profile had been set up when an old university classmate told her his friend had been chatting to someone on the site that was using her pictures
At first the friend didn't believe he had been duped and it was only when he was shown Miss Woodley's Facebook profile that he realised the profile was a fake.
Miss Woodley, who is in a relationship with boyfriend Nathan Adamson,
'What if it had been one of his friends who had seen the profile and he genuinely thought that I was on a dating site?
'How could anyone do something so deceptive and horrible?
Miss Woodley, who has never had a profile on Plenty of Fish or any other dating site then decided to set up an account and confront the person
'I was so angry I decided to do something. I knew I couldn't let her, or maybe even he, get away with it.'
The profile using her pics also had the catchline 'Looking for nothing
Miss Woodley, who has never had a profile on Plenty of Fish or any other dating site then decided to set up an account and confront the person behind the stolen pictures, as well as reporting them to the app.
Her first message
But when the mystery person still didn't remove the account she tried a different approach and wrote: 'I've reported this now so please can you take them down.
'I don't know why anyone would do something like this or save images of someone else and portray it as their own identity but you shouldn't need to use images of someone else to develop a relationship with someone.
'They should be with you because of you.'
The account has now been removed, but it is unclear if the user took it down or Plenty of Fish, as she has had no reply from the site about her report.
Now she wants to raise awareness about online privacy and warn other young women to pay careful attention to their settings on Facebook.
She
'And I also found out that you need to go through each profile picture individually on facebook to make them private.
Now Miss Woodley, pictured with her boyfriend, left, wants to raise awareness about online privacy and warn other young women to pay careful attention to their settings on Facebook
'That seems unnecessarily complicated so I want to warn people to be careful about what they put online.
'The whole thing really freaked me out because I don’t know how many people Jodie was speaking to or even if she put my pictures on any other sites.
'I have no idea who he or she is but just because the profile is made to be female doesn’t mean anything.
'It could be for a number of reasons. I feel a bit sorry for this person. If they feel that they have to use another identity to develop relationships then there are significant insecurities there.
'Or it could be dodgy, or it could be a
She added: 'I found it hard to report the situation. There’s been no reassurance about what’s been done.
'It’s weird to think that if my friend hadn't have seen it I would have never have known.
'How do I know it’s not going to happen again?'
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