Where do scammers get their pictures from? Well, unsurprisingly, they nick them. Sometimes they forget to crop the source from the bottom corner of the picture - so they send a picture of a pretty girl from a Lingerie catalogue with a link to the catalogue. Occasionally they don't bother to make up a new name, and re-use the name of a gorgeous pouting model girl on Instagram Sometimes If you do a Reverse Image Search, it will find the source website. And sometimes I find all three. As in the case of Janessa Brazil, a Brazilian porn star. A lot of scammers use her pics, and a lot of guys fall for the scam Here's her story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64720239