Gavin Duffy: Last News

Dragon’s Den star Gavin Duffy is taking on social media giants Facebook in a bid to stop dark ads using his name including some which claim he is dead.

Dragons’ Den investor Gavin Duffy is ‘horrified’ to have found himself at the centre of an online scam claiming he had died.The businessman and former presidential candidate is the subject of a series of click-bait ads that have popped up on Facebook.The scam announces the news of Gavin’s passing but once clicked redirect to a bitcoin business that alleges the Louth man has made a substantial amount of money from.Announcing that he is ‘very much alive,’ Gavin revealed that at first he found the whole thing funny but when he and his wife were flooded with messages of concern, he knew it was something a lot more serious.‘Hundreds of people have been in contact looking for my funeral details and in a Covid world when people are missing