Victim of photo & identity theft

Nurses and caregivers

Kind faces used to build fake emergencies

medical

romance scam

job scam

identity theft

Illustration of how these photos are reused in fake profiles. We never republish a victim's stolen photograph.

Nursing photos are stolen to create warm, trustworthy personas and to stage medical emergencies in other scams. They are also heavily used in fake overseas job and recruitment frauds.

Where the photos come from

Hospital social media, graduation and pinning ceremony photos, care agency websites and personal accounts.

Personas built from them

A nurse working night shifts who can only text
A caregiver raising money for a patient
A recruiter offering overseas nursing placements for an upfront fee

Where they show up

Facebook

TikTok

Dating apps

Job boards

Red flags

Any recruitment that charges the candidate a placement, visa or registration fee
An emergency fundraiser with a personal bank account or crypto wallet attached
Shift patterns that always coincide with your video call requests
Identical photos appearing under several names

How to verify

Legitimate agencies are paid by employers, not by nurses
Verify any nurse against the national nursing register
Confirm charity fundraisers through the charity's own website, never a supplied link
Check every phone number or wallet in our database first

Search a name, phone, email or wallet

A face that lowers defences

Nursing photographs project competence and care at the same time, which makes them ideal cover for two very different crimes. In romance fraud the nurse persona is reliable and sympathetic; night shifts explain silences, and the emotional labour of the job explains why the relationship deepens so quickly.

Recruitment fraud

The second use is more damaging in volume. Stolen photos of real nurses front fake agencies offering placements abroad, complete with contract PDFs and interview calls. Applicants — often nurses themselves — pay registration, visa and credential-verification fees for jobs that do not exist. The face on the recruiter's profile is a working nurse who has no idea their photo is being used to defraud their own profession.

Fake emergencies

Stolen nursing photos also appear as the "hospital contact" in family-emergency scams: a message saying a relative has been admitted, with a nurse's photo and badge attached to make the urgency feel real.

If these photos are yours

You are the second victim of this scam. The money goes to strangers, but the face, the name and the reputation are yours — and the angry messages from defrauded people land in your inbox, not the scammer's.

Save everything: profile URLs, screenshots with visible usernames, message threads, and the dates you found them.
Report the fake profile on the platform itself under impersonation, not spam. Impersonation reports are actioned faster and you can usually attach a photo ID.
File a report with your national fraud body (IC3 in the US, Action Fraud in the UK, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, or your local police cyber unit).
Submit the scammer's contact details — the email, phone, wallet or profile handle, never your own — to our database so the next person who searches that identifier finds a warning instead of a fake romance.
If someone contacts you believing they were talking to you, be kind and clear: send them to a search page so they can verify the details for themselves.

If you were talking to one of these profiles

Slow down before you send anything. Ask for a live video call on a platform the other person did not choose. Ask for a photo holding a handwritten note with today's date and an unusual word you pick. Run the phone number, email, username or wallet address through our database. A genuine person will pass all three in minutes; a stolen-photo persona will produce excuses — bad signal, hospital shift, offshore rig, army firewall, "you don't trust me".

Never send money, gift cards, crypto or copies of your own ID to someone you have not met in person, no matter how complete the story sounds.

Important

This profile describes a pattern of photo and identity theft. It does not accuse any person pictured in such photographs of wrongdoing — they are victims. We do not republish stolen photo albums. If a report on scamers.org names you incorrectly, use our I'm Innocent review process and we will investigate.