Typically, being a fan offers you numerous: Happiness, pleasure, a way of neighborhood. And generally, it simply sucks actually dangerous.
Here’s a cautionary story for you: A Stranger Issues fan named McKala claims that she was catfished by an internet scammer who tricked her into considering he was actor Dacre Montgomery, who performs the function of Billy on hit TV present.
As she particulars in a YouTube video (which you’ll be able to watch under), the scammer claimed that with a purpose to break up together with his personal girlfriend (the actual Montgomery is in a relationship with mannequin Liv Pollock), she wanted to ship him cash. The girl claims she finally despatched $10,000 to the particular person she believed was Montgomery.
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McKala, who’s a single mom from Kentucky, mentioned she joined a discussion board for artists, the place somebody started chatting together with her, after which claimed he was Montgomery. She says the scammer earned her belief by telling her to tune in to Stranger Issues for a particular episode the night time earlier than the Billy character returned and despatched her poetry like the sort Montgomery had beforehand printed. As for why a working actor in Hollywood would want cash, the scammer instructed McKala that his funds had been managed by his girlfriend, who held their very own cash in a joint account. The sufferer of this rip-off finally divorced her husband amidst all of the deception. (Consultants name this a “romance rip-off.”)
Phrase to the sensible: If anybody sends you personal messages and claims to be somebody well-known, by no means below any circumstances imagine them. I do know of no documented instance of an actor from a well-liked Netflix collection really demanding $10,000 from a fan — however I do know of loads of examples of this kind of habits from scammers. A number of years in the past a fan at a WWE occasion jumped the guardrail and attacked wrestler Seth Rollins, supposedly as a result of a scammer had satisfied the fan that he was Rollins, after which had him ship him lots of of {dollars} in reward playing cards. (Why anybody would assume Seth Rollins, who makes hundreds of thousands of {dollars} a yr and is married to a different WWE famous person who additionally makes hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, would want a present card for a pair hundred bucks is past me, however that’s neither right here nor there.)
You possibly can watch the entire story of the Stranger Issues catfishing rip-off under. Stranger Issues is predicted to return for a fifth and remaining season on Netflix sooner or later within the subsequent few years.