Residents are being warned about a scam claiming a "Helensburgh" woman made huge profits to buy a luxury home and car.

The article is designed to look like it's the Daily Mirror website, but has a url of legacystudiotexas.com.

"Emma Davis" is pictured with a child and home, claiming to have wowed ITV's This Morning with how quickly a £200 investment makes money on Bitcoin.

But a TinEye reverse image search shows the home in the photo is from a property listing in Middlesbrough.

And the screenshot of "Emma" at This Morning is actually Dr Sara Kayat, who appeared on This Morning and was cited in an article in 2020 about co-hosting a Channel 4 programme with Jordan Banjo about weight loss.

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The article generates a date of July 5 and claims "Emma" was speaking to Holly Willoughby - and Phillip Schofield, who left the show several weeks ago. It also mispelled his name as "Phillip Schofields".

In a Facebook warning, Jamie Proudfoot said they allowed the link to be shared to alert residents to the scam threat.

He said: "It seems real because it says 'Helensburgh' and has a newspaper logo on it, even though the web address has nothing to do with that paper. Avoid sharing them with friends or posting on groups because they are basically scams."