I was hacked.. I didn’t sext teen
Wolves star’s anguish as he lifts Championship trophy alongside family
told how he his social media accounts had been “operating suspiciously” for several weeks.
He has called in the FA’S technical experts to troubleshoot the problem.
The girl and her parents were shocked when she was bombarded with messages The GCSE student from Afobe’s official Instagram account even after she told the sender her age two weeks ago.
In the messages she was offered a taxi to bring her to a hotel in Bolton the next day – where the sender said he would be ahead of Wolves’ 4-0 away win at the Macron Stadium last weekend. The horrified girl told her mum and teachers, and said: “I just wanted to stop it from happening to anyone else.”
Yet Afobe had no clue the messages were being sent.
The girl, who is a social media influencer, said she first got messages from Benik’s account two weeks ago, a few days after her 16th birthday. In messages
Fans at Wolves’ 0-0 home draw yesterday Benik Afobe with wife & tot at Molineux stadium yesterday on Instagram and Snapchat, the sender complimented a selfie taken in her bedroom and asked how old she was.
When she said she was 16 the sender sent shocked emojis and wrote back: “I don’t believe it.”
But the first Afobe knew of it was when we approached him for comment on the messages.
His representative said his accounts have now been reset, and condemned whoever had faked the messages.
The sender of the messages almost landed Afobe in hot water with the girl’s father.
Her mum, 46, said: “My husband was disgusted, he wanted to drive to Wolves and confront Benik. I said he should have got into the taxi he wanted to send for my daughter.”
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