Fraudsters have attempted to impersonate SPICE Girl Mel B in order to take advantage of her celebrity friends.
Former Scary Spice, 47 is believed to feel the same way. “violated”Fraudsters contacted her A-list contacts to inform her of a fake. “charity project”Of hers.
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They reached out to her family and friends via WhatsApp for donations on Binance, a cryptocurrency trading platform that trades digital currencies.
Mel’s contacts were also promised the possibility to purchase Bitcoin at an extremely low rate of return.
The messages were sent using the name of charitable Mel and asked for donations to a specific project. “help African children dying of thirst”.
According to a source, Sunday People: “Mel knew nothing of it and called in police straight away.
“She feels really violated and angry that someone would do this and claim it’s for charity reasons when she does so much charity work herself.
“The messages were written as if from her, using kisses and emojis so they were believable.”
Another source claimed that the scam was plausible because Mel does a lot charity work. “Mel does a lot of work for causes close to her heart so it’s doubly upsetting that a fraudster would play on that to try to scam her friends.”
Friends became suspicious of the cryptocurrency element and raised alarm.
It is not known if any of her contacts gave money.
Mel received an MBE for her advocacy on domestic violence.
After she was divorced from her abusive husband, the Women’s Aid patron stated that her award was for all women affected by the issue.
Last week, she asked for government action to address it. “How many more must die?”
Brave Mel spoke at a joint Sun and Women’s Aid Event. She recalled her ten years of domestic abuse hell and revealed how her ex left her. “powerless”.
She also called for ministers to improve funding of abuse support services
She also spoke out about her relationship to Stephen Belafonte “I’m a survivor, not a victim.”