A white man wearing a brown suit jacket and white dress shirt sits in front of a computer screen with a full screen photo of himself on it.

A weatherman in Austria, Sigi Fink, was shocked to learn he was in the news after a romance scammer used his photos to try to trick a CBC journalist out of money. A psychology professor says the problem of scammers using strangers’ images can hurt not just their target, but the person in the photos, too.