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<\/p>\nCountry music legend Daniel O\u2019Donnell calls for action as he highlights the latest social media fraud involving his wife\n<\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview, the country music superstar also hit out at Facebook and other social media platforms that are failing to crack down on criminals targeting his fans.<\/p>\n
Daniel, who has highlighted this issue in the past, was speaking out after TV presenter Elaine Crowley this week exposed a social media scam claiming she had lost weight by giving up three foods \u2013 and posting a fake photo of Virgin Media\u2019s popular Ireland AM host in a bid to lure potential victims.<\/p>\n
In his own case, Daniel tells how one \u201cvulnerable\u201d woman in America was conned out of thousands of dollars after believing that the person she was in contact with was him and was convinced they were going to have a relationship.<\/p>\n
Daniel says: \u201cPeople think it\u2019s me that they are talking to on Facebook and it\u2019s very plausible. A lot of the time (the scam) is that I am going to meet them and they are going to come away with me. They send on thousands. I know of one particular person in America that got caught up in this.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people are vulnerable and there are people who believe that. Sometimes people hang on to the strangest thread, no matter how weak it is.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are the people who fall prey to the scammers and they are sending the money, which they think is to me because this is the way it\u2019s all going to work.<\/p>\n
\u201cEventually, they realise that this is not a real person at all, it\u2019s not a real account and they can\u2019t find the person. Their money is gone and there doesn\u2019t seem to be anything they can do about it, which is ridiculous.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurely to God, when they can send people to space, they should be able to find out who owns a Facebook page.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Singer Daniel O’Donnell and his wife Majella<\/p>\n
Today’s News in 90 Seconds – July 20th <\/p>\n
As well as the scams, Daniel pointed out that he, along with many other celebrities, has been at the centre of numerous false and outlandish stories on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the minute there are all kinds of stories going up about all sorts of strange things,\u201d he says. \u201cLast week Majella was pregnant at 65. It\u2019s so ridiculous you\u2019d hope people wouldn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMajella laughed when she saw it because it is hilarious. As bizarre stories go, that one is top of the tree.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn another story I was at death\u2019s door and pictured in a hospital bed. Englebert Humperdinck had a similar story and had to make a public statement that he was perfectly healthy. Cliff (Richard) has had similar stories.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen other fake stories about our family, including one about Michael (Majella\u2019s son) saying that he couldn\u2019t have had a better stepfather and all I did for him, but, unfortunately, he couldn\u2019t live under the same roof, which is ridiculous.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you try to find out the source of these stories I just think you are on a road to nowhere. There doesn\u2019t seem to be any legislation about Facebook at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music legend Daniel O\u2019Donnell calls for action as he highlights the latest social media fraud involving his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-10908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}