A married father-of-one has revealed to MailOnline how he has been the face of numerous Instagram and TikTok scams, as criminals use his images to reap the benefits of weak girls.
Navy health coach, Farren Morgan, stated that tons of of fraudsters steal his identify and identification to fleece individuals out of cash on quite a few social media platforms.
To curate a faux profile, scammers usually use pictures of the serving soldier in uniform in addition to images of his one-year-old son.
These accounts then put ahead an array of fraudulent schemes together with hoax competitions and courting web site manipulation, with some girls allegedly shedding 1000’s of kilos.
Talking to MailOnline, the 36-year-old coach from London stated: ‘These individuals are making a hell of some huge cash out of my identify. I’ve seen three accounts the place I am holding my son. That makes me really feel indignant greater than the rest – how low are you able to go?

Health coach Farren Morgan (pictured), 36, has been the face of numerous on-line scams

Pictured: Farren Morgan’s actual TikTok account is the verified @thetacticalathlete, however a search reveals that quite a few different accounts are utilizing images of him on the platform
‘I had a person message me final week saying: “You are having an affair with my spouse please depart her alone”. I used to be like: “I don’t know what you are on about I have been married now for 10 years – I am very comfortable you have clearly been scammed by a faux account”.
‘Actually, there may be not in the future that goes by the place I do not obtain an e mail or a message. It is usually between one and 5 messages a day.’
Farren believes the scams began round three years in the past when he first kickstarted his Instagram account (@farrenmorgan) which now has greater than 220,000 followers.
He stated: ‘I simply realised in 2020 that individuals had been receiving messages pretending to be me, saying: “Hello I am Farren Morgan, if you need to win a day with me then simply observe this hyperlink”.
‘This takes you to a cost system the place individuals paid £1 to £10 for this.
‘I assumed it was one or two individuals, so I blocked them and reported them. Then I did a contest on Instagram and about 20 profiles with my face got here up. They had been all messaging the those that entered the competitors telling them they’d received and to observe a hyperlink.’
On one event, Farren claims {that a} girl was scammed out of £3,000 after receiving a number of messages from a fraudulent profile like this.
The entire ordeal was stated to be extraordinarily tense at first, together with his health enterprise simply beginning to do properly.
‘At one level Instagram truly deleted my account and stated I used to be the faux one whereas the others had been nonetheless scamming individuals. I used to be actually stressed as a result of my enterprise was doing very well on the time and I could not pay money for anybody at Instagram,’ he added.

Criminals usually use pictures of the serving soldier and images of his one-year-old son

Pictured: A Twitter search reveals a couple of account utilizing Farren Morgan’s images. His actual account is @FarrenMcoaching, however he has not used it in a very long time
‘Ultimately, I received my account again. However that is occurred twice now regardless that I have been the true particular person.’
Farren Morgan scams have now unfold to a number of platforms together with TikTok, Instagram and Twitter.
The Instagram bio of 1 account reads: ‘Am on the lookout for critical relationship and caring girl that can take excellent care of me.’
One other on TikTok claims they’re an ‘creator’, a ‘Los Angeles Native’ and within the army police.
The profiles come at a time when army personas are a well-liked alternative for on-line scammers, as scientists not too long ago discovered they’re usually used to demand emergency funds.
Pretend Farren Morgan profiles use a number of techniques to hook individuals in, comparable to display screen recording his movies and sending them to girls on social media.

The 36-year-old coach stated: ‘These individuals are making a hell of some huge cash out of my identify’
However Farren claims their messaging model is totally completely different to his, utilizing phrases like ‘ma’am’ and damaged English.