I’d love to go back and experience the days of real dating. I just feel online is nothing but playing with fire and it truly is getting worser with no sign of regulations or protocols to help police and protect people from scams…
Chances are whoever tried it with me has already created a new account with a different face and location to lure in others. I just pray they’re not using my face to do it as it worries me they still have all them screenshots of my profile pics
So true and thank you for the encouraging words 
I’m usually over careful with these things which is probably why it’s effected me worser cause this scammer was legit convincing… their photos seemed genuinely average which obviously they must have taken from some other poor soul they targeted. They spent a lot of invested time talking normal to me too then bam! Just flipped 
Just now left thinking is anyone new who talks to me real?! Plus the shock factor to add is they don’t even need any compromising images of a person to target you, just a face photo or two from your socials and then they can literally ai you into unflattering pornography 
I’ll defo be getting some frowny face stickers to put on my nipples in future for photos!
I currently feel rather uneasy wondering if they’ll use my images as a fake account to scam others…
Sadly I don’t have any ex’s but if something like this was to have happened with a person I knew then I’d have a field day reporting them to police as it’s now classed as a criminal act what can land them in the slammer.
@AJSTAR So sorry this has happened to you! 
Technology can do wonderful things until it’s used for something like this. Glad you got it sorted in the end 
I did have someone stral a profile picture from my Facebook once and create an acxount with it, when I reported it Facebook said there was no issue 
A good line of defence is not to use a profile picture of you on your socials. Some people will judge, let them: if people will judge me without understanding my reason why then I don’t need them in my life anyway 
I’ll always happily provide a recent photo of me, eventually, if someone asks and they seem real.
Indeed it’s sad how there will always be those out there who’ll seek to abuse and taint great futuristic advances which are meant for so much more greater things to help
Good old Facebook! Keeping up the virtual basics of ai customer services to save spending 
Think the internet as a whole is one them things what we have to accept by putting ourselves on it we are inevitably opening ourselves up to the potential of darker web too, even though this should be a thing
So sorry this happened to you. But at least you can learn form it in order to prevent it happening again x
Sorry this happened to you @AJSTAR I hope you’re feeling ok, I can imagine things like this can really knock you back. Have a virtual hug from me
AI is getting scary now luckly i dont think im hot enough or big enough online to be much of a target and i remain anonymous.
It’s right to remain anonymous @Holly_Love but you certainly are hot enough.
Thank you not showing my face helps too i guess
You’re absolutely right, and really it’s why my Youtube channel has struggled too. Hubby has worried about me putting myself out there because there are people who, sadly, do target people who are, as they call us, “unconventionally attractive”, who maybe do compare themsekves to other “hotter” people, and maybe aren’t as confident as what they could be because of it, and don’t need the trolling. On the flipside of that, however, is that my channel simply won’t do as well if I *don’t& put myself out there, because authenticity builds trust in these things. It really is a no-win situation.
Definitely, I’m being so much more careful now and have also been warning others on the app that talk to me.
Thank you 
it’s weirdly knocked me more than expected and my confidence has taken a tumble but not sure if it’s this experience or the second date I had a few days before with a guy who randomly decided after to say they aren’t sure anymore if they want a relationship or just friends 
I very rarely connect to people but they somehow made me feel like I belonged and now it’s just taken away again so was spiralling then booted even more down with this nasty experience after it…
Weirdly I wonder if it’s the more unnoticeable people that are of a bigger target for experimental purposes cause it’s then easier to use their images and spam without recognition
I’d second that too! 
It’s indeed a sticky situation of risk taking and gambles to navigate through and half the time never really expect certain things like this to happen as only hear of it going on in the backgrounds of life…
We always think these things happen to someone else, not us. I remember, after my father was diagnosed with cancer, I said to my Mum “cancer happens to other families, right up until it happens to your family, then you realise how truly awful it is”.
That’s so true on quite a sad level… I lost all my grandparents to cancer and kept thinking how the statistics weren’t right in it