Holly Carpenter has admitted that she went to the Gardai after discovering someone was pretending to be her on dating app Tinder.
The Dublin model was horrified when she realised someone had taken her pictures and used her name to create the fake account.
“I got a mail on Facebook from a guy I didn’t know. He messaged me a few times and after I didn’t reply he said ‘how come you’ll talk to me on Tinder but not on Facebook?'” she said.
Faker: Someone has been impersonating Holly on Tinder | VIPIRELAND.COM
“I replied and told him that I wasn’t on Tinder and he said that he had been talking to me for months on it and he had been texting me as well.”
After being sent the imposters number, Holly discovered they were also pretending to be her on messaging app WhatsApp.
“He sent me the number, and the person is using my name and picture for their WhatsApp profile as well, so it looks like it’s me that people are texting,” she said.
“He had been messaging them for months and they were saying God knows what.”
Creepy: The imposter has been sending people messages as Holly for months
“They were ringing me in the middle of the night and sending me constant messages, I ended up going to the gardai – I was so freaked out,” she explained.
The former Miss Ireland was mortified when she found out the faker had been sending photoshopped naked photos of her – motivating her to get the Gards involved.
“A girl I’m friends with on Facebook messaged me to say someone was texting her pretending to be me,” she told The Herald.
Help: Holly has contacted the Gardai | PATRICK O’LEARY
“I don’t know if it was the same person, but they were messaging her saying that I wanted to get a boob job and to send pictures of hers that I could show them to a surgeon.”
“When she said no, they sent a picture back where  they had photoshopped my head on to a topless picture.”
“The thought that things like this were going around and people could think it was me was the final straw.”
