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While there are safeguards, anyone from a well-meaning loved one to a malicious scam artist can create fake versions of you that would have been inconceivable a few years ago.

While emigration businesses promise much, the sector is "riddled with scams", acknowledged Ghislain Ngongang, a consultant who helps clients obtain visas for Canada and France.

At the U.N. on Tuesday he said, “Windmills are pathetic” and warned countries that “if you don’t get away from the green-energy scam, your country is going to fail.”

For the next month, messages from customers mistaking Ms Newman's business for a scam were "continuous" as they commented on social media, emailed and called her.

This followed criticism by investors and lawmakers that such listings had become breeding grounds for scams and manipulation.