Fake ads on Facebook spoil real life fairy story

By Jon DouglasReporter, You & Yoursimage copyrightRobin Wightimage captionThe fairy pictures have started to appear in listings on many other websitesRobin Wight makes impressive wire sculptures of fairies and dandelions which have won the admiration of hundreds of thousands of people online. Photographs that he has taken of his artwork have appeared in adverts on Facebook. The only thing is, Robin does not advertise. The pictures from his website have been stolen by criminals who are using them to supposedly sell his sculptures as garden decorations to Facebook users around the world. In fact, users are directed to other websites to make a purchase and either get nothing for their money or receive a low quality product.It means Robin’s small but successful family business in Stoke-on-Trent is being used by criminals in an international scam, and it appears that there is little that he can do to stop them. Speaking on Radio 4’s You & Yours programme, Robin said the number of fake adverts was “colossal”. “I haven’t really slept for three weeks and every time someone reports another one, you go and look at that material and you do physically feel sick. “Those images are effectively the currency that…
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