Generally, being a fan offers you a large number: Happiness, pleasure, a way of neighborhood. And typically, it simply sucks actually unhealthy.
Here’s a cautionary story for you: A Stranger Issues fan named McKala claims that she was catfished by a web based scammer who tricked her into pondering he was actor Dacre Montgomery, who performs the position of Billy on hit TV present.
As she particulars in a YouTube video (which you’ll watch beneath), the scammer claimed that so as 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 ultimately despatched $10,000 to the particular person she believed was Montgomery.
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McKala, who’s a single mom from Kentucky, stated 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 selected episode the evening earlier than the Billy character returned and despatched her poetry like the type Montgomery had beforehand printed. As for why a working actor in Hollywood would want cash, the scammer advised McKala that his funds have been managed by his girlfriend, who held their very own cash in a joint account. The sufferer of this rip-off in the end divorced her husband amidst all of the deception. (Consultants name this a “romance rip-off.”)
Phrase to the smart: 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 preferred Netflix sequence truly demanding $10,000 from a fan — however I do know of loads of examples of this kind of habits from scammers. Just a few 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 present playing cards. (Why anybody would assume Seth Rollins, who makes thousands and thousands of {dollars} a 12 months and is married to a different WWE famous person who additionally makes thousands and 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’ll be able to watch the entire story of the Stranger Issues catfishing rip-off beneath. Stranger Issues is anticipated to return for a fifth and ultimate season on Netflix in some unspecified time in the future within the subsequent few years.
