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Miriam O’Callaghan calls in lawyers after her name is used to advertise skin care brand

The TV presenter has warned that the advert is a "scam"

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Miriam O’Callaghan has called in her lawyers, after her name was used to advertise a skin care brand without her permission.

The RTÉ star has described the advert as a scam, and insisted that she has nothing to do with the anti-wrinkle cream promotion.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Liveline, caller Vicki McNulty from Galway explained how she had ordered the beauty product from what was advertised as Miriam’s new skin care line, TryVix.

She explained, “Basically the webpage was saying that Miriam O’Callaghan was leaving RTE to develop and market this wonderful anti-aging cream. So I got curious.”

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“I read the article and it showed pictures of Miriam with other colleagues from RTE, well-known colleagues and there were testimonials and at the bottom of the page they said they were sending out free samples of the product so I said ‘why not?’. All you had to pay for was the packaging.

“And I actually received products about two weeks later so that was fine, nothing happened, I’ve been using it since. And by the way, it doesn’t get rid of any wrinkles.”

Although the advert said she would only have to pay for shipping, weeks later Vicky began to receive unexplained transactions on the account she used to purchase the cream.

Then last week, she received a letter from the Financial Crime Unit of Bank of Ireland to discuss transactions on the account.

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When asked if she had recently purchased a product of €99, and she said ‘no’, the transaction was cancelled and future transactions from that account were blocked.

Vicky warned, “With this particular type of website, normally there’s a box that you tick at the very bottom, which I didn’t see, to unsubscribe from receiving the product or which disallows them from debiting different amounts from your account.”

“I just thought because they were using a very well-known TV presenter Miriam O’Callaghan that other people may fall for this,” she added. “So just if anyone is interested in buying any of those products tell them to stay away from them.”

Miriam confirmed to RTE’s Liveline that she has contacted her lawyers to have the ads taken down immediately.

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