Naga Munchetty issues warning after fake nudes of her are spread on social media in money making scam

Naga Munchetty has spoken retired aft discovering fake nude pictures of her person been circulated online arsenic portion of a ruse to con radical retired of money.

The BBC Breakfast presenter, 49, says she was alerted to the information by friends and followers who had sent screenshots of paid-for advertisements popping up connected social media with immoderate including “crudely mocked-up images of maine bare – my look severely photoshopped onto idiosyncratic else's body”.

The erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing prima penned an nonfiction for BBC News successful which she said she was “both mortified and bemused, funny astir who would wage bully wealth to dispersed specified evident nonsense. And what was their motive? Is it thing malicious? Someone with an axe to grind?”

She past explained however she had discussed it with colleagues who helped her look into it further and “it soon became evident that my sanction and representation were being utilized by scammers to effort to hoodwink radical retired of money.”

People clicking connected the adverts were taken to a fake quality article, implicit with BBC logo and imagery.

“The fake nonfiction astir maine suggested I had been detained by the authorities pursuing a ‘controversial"interview connected ITV's This Morning, wherever I allegedly gave details astir a "lucrative loophole" to marque money,” she continued.

“It was made to look similar a BBC News article, implicit with logo and branding, and it contained links to a scam cyber trading website, which has present been taken down aft my accumulation squad reported it to the BBC ineligible team.”

Munchetty said she was “lucky” that the BBC ineligible section were capable to enactment swiftly successful getting the ads taken down owed to copyright laws, but that she has been warned “another website is apt to popular up soon enough”.

She further noted that getting ads removed from X, formerly Twitter “has go much hard since it changed ownership”.

The broadcaster is not the lone personage to person been targeted successful these types of scams, referrencing Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis and Wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham arsenic different victims.

Munchetty said that portion she recovered specified articles and fakes images being dispersed astir “mildly upsetting”, that her “main information for speaking retired astir them is to effort to halt anyone handing implicit immoderate wealth oregon idiosyncratic accusation to these scammers.”

The Standard has contacted a typical for X for comment.