Martin Lewis Detained Immediately After Live ITV Broadcast [SCAM ALERT - EDITED BY GNHQ]

If you follow Martin Lewis, (I do), he said
about 10 days ago that he was going on holiday for a few weeks and would neither be seen nor heard on any media.
So maybe the scammers though it was an opportune time to get him out there?

Wyllow3

Seems a pretty spiteful thing to do to Martin Lewis, of all people? Who's behind the scam if it is one?

Probably the same charlatans and conmen who illegally used his name to front their financial scams. The real Martin Lewis denounced the fakes and warned his followers not to be taken in.

They’re everywhere. You really don’t know what to believe anymore. We need to be vigilant and double check anything that looks just too good to be true.

There are so many of these about. There’s one featuring Deborah Meaden from Dragon’s Den and one from the blonde, Sarah from DD both saying they endorse slimming pills. Total rubbish.

There are a couple of others involving supposedly NHS staff who have supposedly lost stones in weight. One shows 3 “Drs” and the other some “nurses”. Again, absolute rubbish!

Just the way it reads I can tell it’s a fake.

Wyllow3

Yes, M61, check out the website I gave, you can't get into "weather" "sounds" etc. It's so well done, but there is that dangerous bar at the bottom to press to get drawn into the scam. Phew, thank you JaxJacky. I don't feel a fool, I feel rather enraged!

Yes I clicked on it thanks.
He’s fed up with people using his name & good reputation to scam folk.

They will be sat in a shed somewhere, wearing headphones 😩

Martin Lewis issued proceedings against Facebook as there were over 1000 scam ads popping up with his face supposedly endorsing things. Facebook agreed to pay £3m to a charity of Martin's choice if it didn't go to court. Seems nothing has really changed. He has said time and time again that he doesn't put his name to anything but people are still falling for them.

There was a man on the news this week who had lost £75000 having been scammed by people purporting to be Martin Lewis and Elon Musk.

The Martin Lewis one has been around for a while now.
When I think how quickly FB or even GN take down or ban people for posts, you wonder why they don’t do something about things like this.

Mt61

They will be sat in a shed somewhere, wearing headphones 😩

Absolutely not. They are imprisoned in these small towns built for just this purpose.

www.newsweek.com/satellite-photos-scam-center-myanmar-thailand-shwe-kokko-myawaddy-2040154

Yes, another scam. ☹

This ML scam is all over Instagram and other quite profile people have been shown in clips ...its all AI or scammers

There was a story in the Mail last week featuring a man who thought he was on a legitimate cryptocurrency site endorsed by Martin Lewis but it was of course a scam.
He lost £120,000.

Martin Lewis’s image has been used on numerous occasions and he has warned people repeatedly on his tv shows.

These despicable scammers work on people’s greed.

Martin Lewis is not the only financial expert deep faked this way. I read last weekend of people who lost tens of thousands of £s investing in a fund purported to be run and promoted by this expert, whose name eludes me.

He was absolutely horrified to find out what people had been led into, because they knew of him and his expertise and thought this deep fake was him.

Wyllow this is fake news which you should not be spreading

RosieandherMaw

Wyllow this is fake news which you *should not be spreading*

She isn’t spreading it. If you’d read the thread you’d know that.

petra

Wyllow3
In the times we are living in your immediate reaction should have been to check out the story.

What a spiteful attack on someone who cares about the world we live in and immediately says was caught out herself, and in fact it turns out to be a useful shared discussion. Shame on you.

btw,

With online M n S orders you can now order and click and collect even from food stores, hurray, at last!

Just remembered Robert Prescott was supposedly being sacked for revealing this money making nonsence.

I think it IS harmful to leave the thread up. Lots of "others" just read the titles, or maybe the opening lines, so the wrong information sticks and gets passed on. That's what's spreading.

Wyllow3 it's hard to apologise for a mistake on GN without having half the world and its granny descending on you post after post. Even thread after thread from now on. It seems everyone wants to add to your misery, sometimes spitefully, but that's just how it is. I respect you for swiftly apologising. No one is right all of time.

If it’s too good to be true
don’t fall into these scams they’re all over the place tricking people into giving them money

escaped

I think it IS harmful to leave the thread up. Lots of "others" just read the titles, or maybe the opening lines, so the wrong information sticks and gets passed on. That's what's spreading.

Wyllow3 it's hard to apologise for a mistake on GN without having half the world and its granny descending on you post after post. Even thread after thread from now on. It seems everyone wants to add to your misery, sometimes spitefully, but that's just how it is. I respect you for swiftly apologising. No one is right all of time.

Thank you escaped yes it has been really upsetting. I have reported one of the remarks above to the moderators.

Wyllow3

petra

Wyllow3
In the times we are living in your immediate reaction should have been to check out the story.

What a spiteful attack on someone who cares about the world we live in and immediately says was caught out herself, and in fact it turns out to be a useful shared discussion. Shame on you.

btw,

With online M n S orders you can now order and click and collect even from food stores, hurray, at last!

I see no “spite” in this response!
Good news about M&S though

I believe in taking a positive not bitter view of the world. Ie - mistake made - lesson learnt - serves as a warning to others:

why bother to attack any poster you have a personal grievance about

- especially when the moderators have said "we've left it in as a lesson"

and indeed, as people give more examples, it goes imo become more not less valuable.

I also feel really sorry for Martin Lewis, a good man who has helped so many, and I appreciate other posters giving examples of similar attacks so's we can all learn.

I have read GNHQ comment on the post but I think adding "SCAM" to the title box might be pertinent in order readers quickly realise it's not as it seems.
Sorry you're getting such grief Willow.