London, Feb. 26: A Briton said to resemble Saif Ali Khan is accused of using a photograph of the actor on a mobile dating application to lure vulnerable women into sexual relationships.

Anna Rowe, a 44-year-old teaching assistant, says the man, who calls himself "Antony Ray", conned her into believing he would marry her by addressing her as "Mrs Ray" and "my wife, my love, my soul". Anna, matched with the man on a site called Tinder in August 2015, says she was completely taken in during their whirlwind romance. He told her he was divorced with three sons, had a sick mother who needed his attention, and had to go abroad frequently since he worked in aviation.

"Ray", who is probably of Indian origin, used Saif's picture, reversed and in black and white, as his Tinder profile.

Anna, who was married and divorced in her twenties, then had two children with another man before splitting from him in 2010. In the summer of 2015 she signed up to various dating websites.

"Ray" would turn up and stay with Anna at her home in Canterbury, Kent, but her suspicions were aroused when he disappeared after six months.

She employed a private detective who discovered that the man was a legal executive who worked in London and went to his wife and three children in the north of England at weekends - except when he chose to drop in on Anna.

"The detail of the lies has just blown my mind," she admitted. "All I can say is that he must have a degree in deception."

A heartbroken Anna went to the police.

She said: "When they told me there is no legislation to protect people against what he did I was shocked. He used me like a hotel with benefits under the disguise of a romantic, loving relationship that he knew I craved."

She added: "I did not or would not consent to a sexual relationship with a married man, let alone a man who was having relations with multiple women simultaneously."

Another victim too has come forward. It has emerged that the man had used the same image of Saif on his WhatsApp profile but dismissed it as "an old photo" when asked whether it really was him.

A Kent police spokesperson confirmed to The Telegraph on Friday that "the man had lied" but otherwise committed no criminal offence. This means he can carry on using Saif's picture.

A formal police statement said: "Kent police received a report of a domestic dispute on 14 January but no criminal offences were disclosed during the call or when an officer visited the informant later that day."

This newspaper has requested Saif for a comment, which has so far not arrived.

Anna has launched a petition titled "Making a fake online profile with the intent to use women/men for sex should be a crime" in the hope it will protect others.

"If this man had asked me for money, he would have committed a criminal offence under the fraud act. If he had used his fake profile to cause distress by trolling me or posting an intimate picture he would have committed a criminal offence under the communications act," she said.

"But creating a profile to lure me into a fake relationship is not deemed a crime and it should be. What he did has almost destroyed me."

She said: "This is not a revenge story; I actually feel sorry for him. But it isn't just him that does this. The legislation is not keeping up with the speed of technology."