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A wedding dress that never arrives, a baptism gown delivered a month late and bearing little resemblance to the one ordered, and photographs allegedly manipulated with AI to intimidate women who complain. These are among the claims emerging from an unusual case involving a woman who allegedly presented herself on social media as an “haute” fashion designer but is now accused of defrauding dozens of customers in Greece and abroad.

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At least 70 complaints have reportedly reached the authorities and the Cyber Crime Division, with deposits paid for wedding and formal dresses allegedly exceeding 30,000 euros. The women claim that when they sought explanations or demanded their money back, they were met not only with insults and threats but, in some cases, with alleged attempts at blackmail involving AI-altered photographs of family members.

One woman recounted her experience during a report on Mega Channel, saying she had paid 150 euros in advance for a dress for her son’s baptism but never received the garment she had ordered.

“I placed an order for a dress for my son’s baptism, which I never received. I had paid the full 150 euros requested, only to discover eventually that it was a scam,” she said.

After sending repeated messages without receiving a response, she said she reacted to the designer’s social media posts with angry-face emojis. The woman then allegedly called her, subjected her to vulgar abuse and threatened her, telling her that she would receive neither the dress nor her money.

The customer subsequently posted a video on TikTok describing her experience. She said dozens of other women contacted her within days, reporting similar experiences with the same seller.

A month later, she eventually received a dress, which she attributed to the public attention generated by her video and the growing number of complaints posted on the designer’s social media page. But, she said, the garment bore little resemblance to the one she had ordered.

The allegations took an even more disturbing turn with claims that the woman used artificial intelligence to manipulate photographs of the families of customers who challenged her.

The woman accused of running the alleged scheme intervened by telephone during the broadcast, asking to remain anonymous. She denied the allegations, describing the material presented by the program as false and defamatory, and demanded a public apology and retraction, threatening legal action otherwise.