"eWhoring is an online fraud scam which, like catfishing, is hard to police," Jess explains to Cosmopolitan. While filming her brilliant new BBC documentary, When Nudes Are Stolen, a private investigator unearthed that Jess is also a victim of eWhoring. Yet, having now spent years discovering and reporting countless Tinder/Instagram/you name it profiles baring her face and body (created by scammers to try and extract everything from money to attention from unsuspecting victims), Jess learnt that the way in which her images were being abused had shockingly evolved. It's largely those pictures from Jess's old website that are still being abused today, over a decade later, along with any newer photos that she posts on her social media accounts (including shots of her with friends and family). In those earlier days of the internet (in a time before Instagram and dating apps had really taken off), little thought was given to where those images could end up, or the way they may be used, later down the line. While working as a model during the Zoo and FHM glory days, Jess was encouraged by her manager to set up her own website and share more personal looking images on it – think: bedroom underwear shots and smiley selfies, rather than polished studio set-ups. Jess Davies had known for a while that photographs she'd taken during her former glamour modelling days were being used to catfish people.
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