Gold Coast surfer’s identity stolen and used on famous courting app Tinder

pinnacle global tour surfer Bede Durbidge at once copped flak from his global-well-known surfer pals Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson and Kelly Slater when his spouse Tarryn shared an image of the profile of an obvious impostor.

“Mike” is apparently a 32-12 months-vintage “easygoing (sic) surfer from the sunny coast”.

The profile stated “Mike” was “eager to chill, chat, hangout, get collectively, enjoy eachother (sic)”.

“My time is shared between right here and my paintings in brissy (sic) so if you see me right here let me know,” the impostor’s profile reads.

Mrs Durbidge published an photo of the profile the usage of her husband’s likeness on Instagram.

“i was proven this these days – so excited to peer my hubby on Tinder,” Mrs Durbidge shared on Instagram earlier this week.

“correct good fortune Mike!!’ she stated.

 “Hahah you have to be a busy man,” Fanning said.

“Is it bizarre that I swiped proper?” Slater stated, joking about how the dating app’s matches paintings.

“that is the satisfactory issue ever,” Parkinson stated.

those had been a number of the host of light-hearted jokes about Durbidge, a laid-again circle of relatives man and properly-liked Gold Coast normal-footer.

“Haha what the hell,” Durbidge said upon seeing the comments of close friends.

although in Durbidge’s case the remarks were mild-hearted, identity safety professional Dr David Lacey said it changed into pretty commonplace for impostors to apply the likeness of strangers on courting apps and social media, now and again for sinister purposes.

 “it's far pretty not unusual that people scouse borrow other humans’s photographs,” the senior research fellow at the university of the sunshine Coast said.

“human beings rip images off the web and use them on their very own profiles.”

He said folks who saw their likenesses used in faux profiles or on line commercials have to document it to the social media businesses and website proprietors.

“however, occasionally you’re at the mercy of the domain host,” he stated.

Dr Lacey defined until the pix had been of kids or someone changed into in risk, the hosts of the internet page couldn't be legally compelled to take them down.