A BIZARRE Facebook scam involving Holly Willoughby and cryptocurrency has been doing the rounds in Covingham.
It involves the This Morning presenter and false claims she invested in the digital payment system live on air.
A user in the Covingham Community Facebook page posted a fake Daily Mirror article that claimed a female police officer from the area appeared on the popular daytime show to talk about the thousands she had allegedly made from a company called Bitcoin Up.
The headline reads ‘Female police officer from Covingham has revealed how she earns £18,000-a-month. People think I have a sugar daddy!” – but the URL is not the Daily Mirror’s own.
It is presented as a news story but reads like an advert for the cryptocurrency business and claims that the police officer, ‘Emma Davis’, had challenged Holly to deposit money live on air.
It then says: “After she deposited the initial £200, the algorithm started to buy bitcoin and other currencies for cheap and selling them for higher price very quickly.
The fake Mirror article
“Within only seven minutes, Holly made £60.24 in profit and had a total balance of £260.24 in her account.”
The scam is aimed towards convincing people that the exchange happened on national television and that national media covered it – but that is not the case and a female police officer called Emma Davis has not appeared on This Morning.
The two women pictured in the article…
