a man has opened up about what happened when he discovered his identity had been stolen online and used to contact dozens of women at first, jon will chambers, a freelance creative designer from norwich, didn't think much of it when a stranger e mailed him to say she had been speaking to a man online who was using his pictures under a different name but it soon became clear that the problem went way deeper than just the one instance scroll down for video  jon will chambers, 22, has opened up about how an online impostor used his personal photos to talk to at least 20 girls and women over a period of five  years  in fact, jon discovered that at least 20 women and teenage girls had been tricked into communicating with the man, who used the fake name 'david jones,' (not name actually used on the sites) with a number of them led to believe they were in a romantic relationship with him 'david' was using recent pictures from jon's facebook page as well as old ones from his deleted myspace account in order to assume his identity and over a period of four to five years, he had sent thousands of emails using jon's pictures he contacted women through dating sites, social media platforms and teenage forums, using several different email addresses and charming them with poetry and his supposed love of music even after jon confronted them, some of the women didn't understand that he and 'david' were not the same person speaking to mailonline, jon said: 'some of the girls had been speaking to him for five years and thought they were in a relationship with 'me' 'that's when things started to get creepy and strange but above all worrying as it was clear he was spending a lot of time talking to young girls using my identity' he tried contacting the police, but to no avail   they told him there is no law preventing people from taking his online pictures, since he had them on a public setting  eventually, one of the women hacked into 'david's' account and discovered his true identity   a 65 year old married man from the uk living in spain after jon tracked him down online, 'david' apologised, describing himself as 'just a sad lonely man' and claiming that he was mentally unwell still, jon felt that justice needed to be served   not just for him, but for the dozens of girls and women 'david' had duped so he tried contacting the police, but to no avail he was sent to action fraud, which deals with internet crime, but they told him there was not much they could do about it their advice was to edit his privacy settings or take down his accounts altogether, but jon didn't want to give  his impostor that satisfaction he said: 'they told me to just make my profiles private   that's not a response, that's just sticking your head in the sand and pretending it won't happen to the next person 'i'm not going to miss out on meeting new people, getting new business or being myself by not embracing social media or the 21st century' despite the incident, jon has decided not to let it affect his online life he said: 'i don't think you can live your life in fear of people doing bad things' instead, he believes it's time law was updated in order to protect internet users from this kind of criminal behaviour 'there was a clear and obvious pattern of grooming where he would take them from a public forum, to a private email, to speaking on skype or on the phone,' he said 'that's the most creepy thing and worrying behaviour about this   and the police still weren't interested despite all the evidence 'i was worried that if this was just the tip of the iceberg   who was this man? what would he do if i told the police? 'also, what would the family of these girls think of 'me' despite the fact it wasn't me doing all this   it was someone using my face' jon has spent the last few months attempting to get all 15 of 'david's' fake social media profiles taken down, an arduous process that has yet to be completed when jon's imposter was finally tracked down, he was revealed to be a pensioner in spain (picture posed by model) one social media site told him that his impostor didn’t break their 'community usage policy', while another never replied to his emails despite the fact that some of the fake accounts are still up to this day, jon has decided not to let it affect his online life he said: 'i've met some of my closest friends online as well as an ex boyfriend too 'i don't think you can live your life in fear of people doing bad things'
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con man used jon will chambers' online pictures to pose as him  the man contacted at least 20 women and teenage girls over five years  the man said he was 22 but is really 65 and married  case was sent to action fraud but some fake accounts are still online 