This is Nottingham --A MODEL agency boss says an online fraudster used her name to get teenage girls to send photos of themselves in their underwear.
Anna Gray, who runs Nottingham-based Model Students, said she was "shocked" when teens began contacting her to warn her that fake Facebook profiles had been set up in her name.
Police are looking into the claims and have warned young people to be wary.
Miss Gray said the con first came to light in December when a teenage girl called to say she had been talking to someone claiming to be her on Facebook. But the girl had become suspicious.
Miss Gray was horrified to discover someone had set up a Facebook profile in her name.
"My initial reaction was to be really worried for these young girls and their welfare," said Miss Gray. "You then go to feeling really angry because you have spent three years building up a company for someone to use its reputation like that."
She says her agency uses a strict application process – and never uses Facebook to ask someone to send photos.
Miss Gray, 25, said she complained to Facebook – which took the page down.
But this month, three more girls contacted her about a second profile. This too has been removed by Facebook.
She believes at least six girls aged 16 and 17 have been duped into sending pictures. All but one is from Notts.
Miss Gray added "The first girls who got in touch were really upset. They were thinking all along it's a young woman they are talking to and clearly it might not be."
Model Students is an agency for students – set up in 2010 after Miss Gray graduated from the University of Nottingham. It is still based in the university's Sir Colin Campbell Building.
A Notts Police spokeswoman confirmed that both fake accounts had been reported to the force. The case has been passed to fraud specialists but officers have also informed the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre – part of the National Crime Agency.
A spokeswoman said it was still unclear if a crime had been committed as all the people invited to send pictures were over 16.
Facebook said it could not comment on the case specifically. Reported by This is 14 hours ago.
