Woman, 20, is asked to send nudes after applying for modelling job claiming to be for Boohoo

A woman has revealed how she was asked to send nudes after applying for a modelling job claiming to be for Boohoo.

Boohoo says it will be reporting the matter to the police.

A woman has revealed how she was asked to send nudes after applying for a modelling job claiming to be for Boohoo.

Modelling hopeful Livvi Robson, 20, had excitedly applied for the job after finding it on major employment website Indeed — but said she quickly became suspicious.

The advert promoted the job as perfect for a female model aged 16 to 35 — with an email reply coming back to Livvi’s application just 35 minutes later.

Some of the emails she then received included requests for nude pictures as well as asking for the password to her email account.

“You got any showing full body, hun? Less clothes better x,” one of them said.

Another message read, “A lot of girls normally send full nude and cut face out so it’s secure Hun but it’s your choice, smaller underwear the better x.”

Livvi said alarm bells went off after receiving the “fishy” emails.

“In the emails between me and the interviewer they were starting to ask for revealing images of myself and I refused to,” said the young woman from Skewen, Wales.

“I found it very unprofessional and inappropriate. It was a very big invasion of privacy, plus who would do it so publicly?”

She said she checked the advertisement again — with it stating “Page Not Found”.

Modelling hopeful Livvi Robson. Picture: Media Wales/australscope

The 20-year-old was asked to send nude photos. Picture: Media Wales/australscope

WARNING SIGNS

Livvi said she had also checked for information about the person emailing her back — a Naomi Evans — but couldn’t find anything on Facebook or any Boohoo studio based in Swansea.

She is now warning other modelling hopefuls to be cautious of similar adverts.

“Please be careful since they were looking for ages between 16 to 35 and only females. Some young girls could fall for it,” she said.

“I declined all offers. Once I stated I was refusing to send passwords to my emails and nude pictures of myself, the emails stopped.”

A Boohoo spokesperson said the company was “grateful for this being brought to our attention”.

“The Boohoo brand name has been used under false pretences in this case, but we are taking this situation seriously and have opened up an investigation and will be reporting the matter to the police,” they said.

It comes after The Sun revealed how modelling firms were preying on young hopefuls to scam them out of thousands of dollars by falsely promising work with top brands.

An investigation exposed how one agency promised lucrative shoots with high street companies to young girls — as long as the wannabes forked out up to £2500 ($4440) first.

It is illegal for employment agencies to charge jobseekers upfront fees, however firms get around the law by exploiting a loophole in which they claim to be a “modelling platform”.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission