In an article on BBC News, she said she has found paid advertisements on X and Facebook that included explicit fake images of her, and after investigating with the BBC 5 Live team, they discovered the adverts went to a fake BBC News website to “trick people out of their hard-earned money”.
Munchetty said the BBC legal department had fake websites taken down through copyright law, but she has been “told another website is likely to pop up soon enough, and getting ads taken down from X has become more difficult since it changed ownership”.
Naga Munchetty ‘mortified and bemused’ by alleged scammers using her image Naga Munchetty has said she was “mortified and bemused” by misleading articles about her posted by alleged scammers.
He said the fake news websites encouraged people to invest in cryptocurrency, and take the “authority, the integrity, the credibility” of the BBC and trusted public figures.
The BBC Breakfast presenter, 49, said she is used to “misleading articles about myself online, but the screenshots I’ve been sent by friends and followers on social media in recent weeks are a lot more insidious than most”.
