United Kingdom, June 24 -- Dame Helen Mirren has told her fans to "keep alert" after scammers used her name to front a false charity.

The 79-year-old actress has warned her social media followers to be vigilant as she explained that a mystery scammer was sending out messages in her name asking for vast sums of money.

In a post on Instagram on Tuesday (24.06.25), Helen wrote: "SCAM ALERT! Person(s) unknown have used my name to front a false charity, which is sending out messages from me, offering a large sum of money and asking you to respond to helenmirrencharity@gmail.com.

"THIS IS NOT ME and it is not my email address, please beware and do not respond, this is a scam.

"The original message came from drogogo91@gmail.com and referred ...