A SOLDIER has claimed thousands of lonely women have been catfished by fraudsters using his pictures for ten years.
US Marine Kagan Dunlap, 37, said he received dozens of messages each day from women who believed they were in love with him, despite having a wife.
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The buff army man revealed his wife, Reilly Dunlap, 36, had routinely been messaged by women telling her that her husband was cheating.
Kagan claimed scammers have been stealing his images to dupe women on dating apps since 2015.
He said scam victims were then coerced to send over money with the belief they were talking to the marine.
The soldier revealed that these victims were often asked to send gift cards, cash, and even cryptocurrency to the catfishers.
Kagan claimed that scammers have even gone to the extent of using AI to mimic his voice from online videos he has posted on social media.
This supposedly allowed fraudsters to have lengthy conversations with the victim, making them believe they were truly talking to the man himself.
Kagan said: “I could comfortably say this has affected thousands of women.
“I’ve had women from all over the planet. All over Europe, Canada, America, Australia, women from everywhere say they’ve had people try to scam them.”
Kagan explained how he has had to put up with the ordeal and especially with his wife.
The soldier shared that some of the duped women have messaged his partner to say they have been in a romantic relationship with him online – which leaves him feeling “disgusted.”
Kagan says he has been “brutally honest” with his wife to ensure she understood that these were down to imposters online and nothing to do with him.
The soldier said: “Disgusted is probably a good term for how it makes me feel especially when folks reach out to my family and my wife.
He added: “They’re doing stalker, creepy type stuff.
“One specific one recently has been messaging my mom and my wife. I don’t know how she managed to find who their real accounts were.”
Kagan also revealed that some of these women have been aggressive and so dead set that they had not been catfished that they accused him and his wife of lying.
He also shared his belief that military men were at particular risk of having their identity assumed by scammers.
Kagan said these fraudsters often come up with fake stories and use lies like not having internet while deployed to avoid voice or video calling their prey.
He said: “That’s all nonsense obviously.
“These scammers are able to come up with all of these crazy sob stories because of your military service so they use that to their advantage to get money from people.”
He has urged anyone who thinks they might be being targeted by a romance scammer to vet them using a video call.
Kagan said: “I would say stop talking to that person. There is nowhere on the planet that you can’t do a video call.
“If they’re messaging you from somewhere then they can do a video call with you.”
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