A woman, pictured as a child, is searching for her birth parents on Facebook.
The picture was taken by a photographer based in Seattle and is being used in multiple posts giving different details about who is searching and her mother’s name.
Several posts in local Facebook groups claiming to be from young women looking for their birth parents are fake.
Although the posts use the same photograph of a young child, the details given are different: one claims to have been born in Plymouth and the other in Avonmouth, Bristol. They also give different birth dates and different names of all involved.
But both say their mother was 16 at the time of their birth, that they are looking for their birth parents, and end with the text: “That's all info I have for now. Please bump this post and help me reunite with my family. I really need them at this point of my life [sic].”
Both are accompanied by the same black and white picture of a young child. However, this picture was published in 2011 on the website of a photographer in Seattle who specialises in “outdoor family photography, spontaneous portraits of children in the Seattle area, weddings, and life celebrations”.
Another clue that one of the posts is fake is that the user’s name doesn’t match the name of the person who is allegedly seeking their parents.
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