SOPHIE Rain is no stranger to catfishing.
But the 20-year-old is not the perpetrator or direct victim. Instead, her pictures are used to trick unsuspecting men.
The influencer, who rakes in £500,000 a month with 11 million followers across social media, claims other women “use her beauty” to catfish and scam “naive men”.
Catfishing is the practice of creating a fake identity online, typically on social media or dating apps, to trick someone into forming a relationship (often romantic) with the false persona.
Sophie, 20, claims there are several fake accounts online of people impersonating her in order to “scam” men out of money.
She alleges that people have even taken her videos and used AI to put their faces on her body.
“It bothers me a lot,” she tells.
“I find it incredibly creepy …