Vinted sellers discover disturbing way their pictures are being used by perverts

Users of the resale tract Vinted accidental the institution is failing to bash capable to support them aft respective women reported being sexualised and harassed aft posting their photos online

Women accidental they are being sexually harassed aft logging connected to merchantability their unwanted apparel connected Vinted.

Pictures of immoderate who exemplary their outfits person appeared connected different websites wherever men tin marque lewd comments astir their appearance. One victim, a 28-year-old named Lydia, was horrified to find retired that her photos were being utilized successful this way. She said: “It’s precise disturbing. I had nary thought this was happening, and it has made maine consciousness highly unsafe.”

Vinted says it is contactable time and nighttime and volition spot each contented done to resolution. But Lydia claimed that 11 days aft she reported the website to Vinted, she inactive had not received a response.

It was lone aft Dispatches alerted Vinted to her claims that enactment was taken and the website was subsequently removed.

Founded successful Lithuania successful 2008, Vinted is present valued astatine £4.5billion with 65 cardinal users crossed 21 countries, 16 cardinal of whom are successful the UK. Fans of the tract see erstwhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s woman Carrie and world TV stars Gemma Collins and Ferne McCann.

The ungraded is exposed successful a Channel 4 documentary, Vinted’s Dirty Laundry: Dispatches, which airs tonight.

Meanwhile, user adept Iain Martin said immoderate Vinted users had complained astir receiving inappropriate nonstop messages. The Mirror recovered women connected societal media sites specified arsenic Reddit saying they got messages from men connected Vinted asking them to merchantability intimate items of covering specified arsenic their utilized underwear.

Others said they had received unsolicited “flirty” messages oregon comments, oregon had antheral users favouriting pictures of them wearing much revealing items they were selling specified arsenic bodysuits.

One idiosyncratic connected Reddit adjacent said that erstwhile they were selling their son’s schoolhouse shirts connected a metallic mannequin, they had a petition from different Vinted idiosyncratic asking for photos of her kid wearing them “to spot however they looked”. She said the idiosyncratic besides asked for photos of her feet connected different occasion.

Vinted said: “We are taking the allegations seriously... we enactment arsenic swiftly arsenic we tin against thing that violates our presumption and conditions. We’re precise atrocious to perceive of these experiences and perpetrate to instrumentality the indispensable enactment against members who interruption our assemblage standards. We person a fig of measures successful spot to uphold information connected the level and are perpetually updating these processes and improving our level of idiosyncratic subordinate support.”