Aston Villa player Tyrone Mings brilliantly exposes a catfish pretending to be him meeting for girls on social media site Instagram.
The 27 year old trolled the imposter who is trying to meet girls, messaging them privately, whilst pretending to be the Premier League player.
The Villa defender took to social media to make it aware to his female fans that he wasn’t responsible for the messages that was coming from phony which claimed to be from him.
Mings uploaded screenshots of the hilariously cringe messages onto his Instagram platform for his 251,000 followers.
It read: “Yo darlin I hope you don’t think this is too weird, I’m @tyronemings.
“Don’t wanna msg from my main account because u know what papers and media do to footballers.
“I just wanted to say I think you’re very attractive and I’d like to get to know u.
“If you’re interested I’ll drop u my personal line and we can ft”.
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After being alerted to the messages by several women, Tyrone published an image of the message on Instagram.
He added: “These were his bars. Few things I’d change, few grammatical errors…
“Maybe don’t dive straight in with the FaceTime offer. He nearly got the colour of the emoji skin right though.”
While Tyrone Mings exposes a catfish pretending to be him meeting for girls on Instagram, he is also tackling racism on social media.
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Meanwhile, he’s joined up with the likes of Jordan Henderson, Tyrone Mings, Karen Carney to discuss online abuse with the government.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston had a Zoom call with the the footballers, pundits and eight other football personalities, including Watford’s Troy Deeney and retired player turned broadcaster Anton Ferdinand.
Ferdinand recently was part of the much talked about BBC documentary about his experiences with racism from John Terry, while Karen Carney has taken down her Twitter account after receiving sexist abuse from Leeds supporters after being publicly criticised by the Premier League outfit.
They were asked to share their experiences of getting abuse, while ministers revealed plans to tackle online harms in a new bill which will come before Parliament this year.
Dowden admitted: ‘To hear players talk about the level of abuse they have faced was humbling. Their input today has strengthened my resolve to bring in new laws to ensure there is much greater accountability from the social media platforms for dealing with such problems.’
Liverpool’s Henderson expressed: ‘The meeting was very important and I’m pleased that those with power and authority to enact change realise the seriousness of the abuse towards players.’
Aston Villa defender Mings, who has previously spoken out about racist abuse on social media, said: ‘I was pleased that the Secretary of State wanted to engage with, and listen to, the thoughts of us as players and ex-players. Hopefully this adds context when he attempts to deliver change on behalf of us.’
Women’ players Renee Hector and Rinsola Babajide also made an appearance on the call, along with the FA’s Paul Elliott, the PFA’s Simone Pound and Shaka Hislop who represents Show Racism the Red Card.
Because careful or at least have some common sense when it comes to posting on social media, because it would seem that punishments will only be getting stricter.
Brentford’s Ivan Toney recently received racist abuse on social media, with a Facebook and Instagram spokesperson said: “There is no place for racism in football or on our apps. We have deleted the comment and removed the user from the platform.”
Quite astonishing really they have taken this stance, something a huge number of players had wanted for so long, so it’s good to see them actually doing something about it now.
Toney posted on his Instagram story a screenshot of a user who had replied to a post on his page using the N-word.
Sanjay Bhandari, chair of anti-racism charity Kick It Out, said: “The comment Ivan Toney received on his Instagram page was unacceptable and we are glad the individual responsible was swiftly removed from the platform.
“We are working closely with the football authorities, law enforcement and social media organisations to find solutions to tackle online abuse and bring about real change, in order to give players greater protection moving forward.
“Situations like this show us once again that online hate must have real-life consequences. People feel they are free to say want they want online, because they think there will be no consequences – but that must change.
“We hope that information about the perpetrator will be shared with law enforcement too, to enable further appropriate action.”
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