Fraudsters have used photographs of Mark Daly, a Kerry senator and the cathaoirleach of the Seanad, to con women out of hundreds of thousands of euros in romance scams on Tinder.
One New Zealand woman interviewed by Stuff.co.nz under the alias “Donna” admitted becoming “infatuated” with an online profile that used several pictures of Daly under the fake name Rodney Mullen. She sent the fraudsters NZ$517,000 (€315,000).
Another woman sent more than NZ$1 million to a man with the fake name Fred Ritterman who also used pictures of Daly in his profile.
A number of other women have posted on scam-alert websites about being duped by fraudsters who used Daly’s image on Tinder. This weekend a spokesman for Daly said he had referred the matter
