Someone using my dad's images on a dating site

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I have reported it and they still haven't been taken down after over two weeks. My friend has set up her own fake page and managed to match with him(?). Her image is an AI edited image of herself made to look older. They matched 5 mins after she set up the account so whoever it is is obviously spending a lot of time just swiping people. Somehow they are photo verified! My dad is aware and is quite upset. He is a medical professional and they have used a photo from his work website and also a random photo of a man topless with his head cropped (which isn't him). No way of finding out who it is but how on earth do we get this removed?

Which site? So people know who’s not doing their due diligence in blocking scammers. A bit of bad publicity in here wouldn’t hurt.

Tinder

Tinder have a special form on their help pages where you can report this. Did you use this or just general contact details?

The form and a button that says something like 'report profile' but i am wondering if it's because they are somehow photo verified that they aren't removing it.

I think your dad would need to report it himself to confirm it’s his photos, you reporting it won’t work because you could be anyone.

Or, might there be any chance he has actually set it up himself but he’s now embarrassed because you’ve seen it?

He did. We were all together when we reported it and he had to take a selfie to verify it was him. Radio silence. It would've thought they would have some sort of AI built in to make it immediate!

Sorry you keep changing your response so my answer now looks like I'm saying he did set it up himself. No he didn't set it up himself. He was sat in front of me when my friend matched with him and he (assuming it is a he!) sent multiple messages (without her responding may I add) whilst my dad was sat right next to us. Used terms like 'baby' and 'my love'.

How annoying. At lest your Dad can comfort himself that he’s been picked by the scammers as a universally appealing person they can use to try and get money out of lonely women.
Does Tinder not have an escalation point? Try a Subject Access Request and demand to stop processing his personal data without consent.

I'd arrange a date and have the police involved.

https://www.help.tinder.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000234472

This is the form- select “someone is impersonating me” rather than reporting through the profile itself.

I would get your friend to arrange a date, turn up to meet him - but with your dad there hiding somewhere until he outs himself. Take as many people for back up as you feel are needed, but make sure they aren’t visible.

if this guy strings your friend along and won’t arrange to meet, they are definitely looking to scam women out of money.

That wouldn’t happen. It’s a mass scam by organised groups where they might get a bite from 1/100 women they can start to try and get money from. It’s not some bloke in the UK trying to get lucky. It’s a team of scammers in Nigerian or India etc

It’ll be someone using as a romance scammer. You might want to check all the other social media sites that they aren’t doing it there as well and lockdown any social media he has so his photos aren’t accessible.