SINGAPORE – Around December 2025, administrative assistant Luke (not his real name), who is single, was told that there were photos of him with a woman claiming to be his fiancee and the baby they supposedly had together.
In the months that followed, more manipulated images with the same woman popped up.
There were also doctored images of him and his sister’s children, with the woman pretending to have taken the photos of the toddlers.
Luke realised he was being targeted by an online stalker.
He said he was alerted to the photos by his sister. She told The Straits Times that it was one of her friends, who also knew Luke, who first became aware of the images.
The friend knew Luke is not in a relationship or married, and had no children. Luke’s sister said she tried to get in touch with the woman.
She told the woman to remove the images, especially since her then 6-month-old son’s photo was used in the fake images. She did not receive a response.
Luke’s sister, who agreed to speak to ST but wanted to remain anonymous to protect her family’s privacy, said: “We were very worried and concerned that this stranger has photos and videos of my children stored in her phone and was sharing it online as and when she likes.
“It has made us quite paranoid and anxious about sharing anything online now,” she said on finding photos of her son on the woman’s Instagram account.
Luke and his sister said the images shared by the woman looked like they were created using artificial intelligence.
Luke said he has been having trouble sleeping and focusing on work, adding: “It is traumatising to learn that your pictures were used in such an elaborate narrative.”
It was a few weeks after he saw the first images that he realised that the woman was a former schoolmate he last saw about 15 years ago.
He said: “I spoke no more than two sentences to her when we were in school.
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