She is uninterested in seeing faux IDs in her feed and her personal footage getting used to tear folks off
Bushra Ansari has had sufficient of what she calls ‘low-cost pages’ using ‘low-cost ways’ and utilizing her footage to run faux accounts and impersonating her whereas asking the general public for cash within the title of charity. She has, subsequently, taken to Instagram to difficulty a stern warning and a rant.
Ansari has posted a video on Instagram titled ‘Now bhikaris (beggars) on social media are utilizing my faux IDs.’
Within the video, she complained concerning the rising variety of faux accounts working beneath her title and utilizing footage taken from her Instagram to solicit donations.
“There is no such thing as a scarcity of shameless folks on this world,” she bemoaned.
In the identical video, Ansari additionally flagged some of the latest faux accounts, warning followers a couple of web page utilizing a recent picture of her, one during which she was sporting a bindi. Urging folks to not fall into the lure, she reminded them that this was not the primary time she had raised the difficulty.
“I’ve put a video like this earlier as effectively that please do not observe these faux accounts of mine. Day earlier than yesterday, there was a recent image of mine the place I had put a bindi on my brow. There may be an account with that image, too. Earlier than that, as effectively, I do not know, they one way or the other take my non-public footage from my Instagram after which beg [for money] utilizing them.”
Visibly exhausted by the continuing ordeal, Ansari stated that regardless of repeatedly reporting and blocking these pages, the issue persists. She additionally made it clear that if she ever chooses to assist somebody, she does so privately, and has by no means gone out “to gather funds”.
She additionally reminded followers of her official accounts: ansari.bushra on Instagram, Bushra Bashir on Fb, and one other Fb account the place she is sitting on a tonga as Saima Chaudhry in her show image.
Social media is hardly scam-free. And when a ‘celeb’ pops up asking for charity, it is all too simple to be fooled. So at all times be alert and do not be scammed by faux IDs.
