Channel Seven star Larry Emdur is the latest Aussie celebrity tor fall victim to an online image scam. The Gold Logie winner's image is being used on multiple fake news stories that have popped up as sponsored posts on Reddit. The posts, shared to Reddit by the account Fidelfromuruguay, purport to be news stories from the ABC about Emdur. One post shows a picture of Emdur next to a group of Police with the headline: 'Is this the end of his career. - Larry regrets his words.

he didn't know the microphone was on. The account added: 'How would you act in this situation,' to the clickbait post. A second post from the same account showed Larry apparently being interviewed on a podcast. Channel Seven star Larry Emdur is the latest Aussie celebrity tor fall victim to an online image scam The post read: Larry's career is facing major problems. He didn't notice that the microphone was switched on.' While the posts both featured the ABC News logo, the link they took unsuspecting redditors to was anything but.

Readers would end up at the site news18breaking.com that was set uto be a replica of the ABC homepage. The site featured a fake story, purportedly written by Alan Kohler, about the Bank Of Australia suing Emdur over on-air comments. However the story was a thinly veiled advertisement for a get-rich-quick trading site. The story claimed that Emdur was the host of Channel Seven's Sunrise and featured a concocted transcript of a conversation between Emdur and fellow Seven colleague Natalie Barr about a company called Stratice.

'This time we asked the Sunrise team for help and were able to obtain the recording data of this program,' the scam article claimed. 'Be aware that this article, like the broadcast, siswa 19 plus may be deleted immediately. Therefore, we recommend that those reading this article take a look at the link provided by Mr. Larry Emdur himself.' It's not the first time the Channel Seven star has been the target of an online scam. The posts, shared to Reddit by the account Fidelfromuruguay, purport to be news stories from the ABC about Emdur.

Readers would end up at the site news18breaking.com that was set upto be a replica of the ABC homepage Read More Larry Emdur shocks as he shares photograph of his wife Sylvie with a 'bump' Back in February 2024, Larry took to Instagram to alert followers about  a similar post that was doing the rounds on social media. 'People keep sending me this, penipu it's everywhere,' He shared on the post of a fake news link showing Emdur, spelt Emdure, and Natalie Barr.

'Please don't click on it (or anything like it) it is complete and absolute bulls***. ' Larry rounded out his warning with a dose of his trademark humour. 'If you'd like to offer some money to a legitimate cause close to my heart that's not a scam then please donate to The Larry Emdur Mortgage Appeal Central Bank of Panama Account name : Happy As Inc' Trading as : Sylvie will never find this money Pty Ltd . 'I know times are tough but thank you.' Former Sunrise host David 'Kochie' Koch blasted Meta (Facebook) in June for failing to remove scam advertisements using his likeness.

Alongside billionaire Andrew Forrest and entrepreneur Dick Smith, Koch is part of an Australian Consumer & Competition Commission lawsuit against Meta filed in 2022, accusing it of misleading conduct by allowing fraudulent ads, according to The Australian.