“Love Makes You Do Crazy, Stupid, Irrational Things”: A Single Mom Fell Victim To An Online Romance Scammer Pretending To Be Dacre Montgomery From “Stranger Things”
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"Love Makes You Do Crazy, Stupid, Irrational Things": A Single Mom Fell Victim To An Online Romance Scammer Pretending To Be Dacre Montgomery From "Stranger Things","The day Season 4 came out, the day before, he texted me and he said, "Hey, you need to watch Episode 4' ... and when it came out the next day, he showed up in that episode, and I was like, well, 'Who else would know that?'"
“Love Makes You Do Crazy, Stupid, Irrational Things”: A Single Mom Fell Victim To An Online Romance Scammer Pretending To Be Dacre Montgomery From “Stranger Things”
Stranger Things is one of the most popular Netflix original series, with millions of dedicated fans who have fallen in love with the characters and the actors who play them.
Recently, an unidentified online scammer purportedly took advantage of a Stranger Things fan when they pretended to be Dacre Montgomery, who plays the character Billy on the show, according to Entertainment Weekly.
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.comWith over 200,000 subscribers, the Catfished channel hosts an investigative series that conducts research to determine if people in online relationships are who they say they are.
According to Catfished’s video on McKayla’s experience, which has garnered nearly 600,000 views, the story seemingly began when McKayla joined an online artist forum to connect with other artists.
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.comMcKayla began messaging a user on the forum who told her that they were the famous actor from the Netflix show.
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.com“I am obsessed with Stranger Things. [His character] Billy is just this bully. He kind of comes in, tries to dominate, which is totally unlike his actual personality,” McKayla said, according to People magazine.
After multiple intimate conversations, McKayla revealed that “Montgomery” asked her to be his girlfriend, but she never spoke to him via phone call or video chat.
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.comAfter a year of online communications, the scammer told McKayla that she needed to make a choice to be in a relationship with him or her husband. McKayla said she told the scammer, “There’s no competition, you treat me better.”
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.com“So I told my ex-husband, ‘It’s not working out. You’re not letting me be me. You’re not letting me be free, so I think you need to leave.’ … Within two months, he was gone,” McKayla told the Catfished YouTube team.
McKayla revealed that one of the reasons that made her genuinely believe she was speaking to Montgomery was that he knew details about new episodes of Stranger Things that would turn out to be true once the episodes aired.
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.com“The day Season 4 came out, the day before, he texted me and he said, “Hey, you need to watch Episode 4′ … and when it came out the next day, he showed up in that episode, and I was like, well, ‘Who else would know that?'” McKayla told the YouTubers.
McKayla also shared another instance that convinced her: After she bought a copy of Montgomery’s book, DKMH: Poems by Dacre Montgomery, the scammer would send her additional poems that she believed matched Montgomery’s writing style.
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.comMcKayla revealed that she began sending $100–$200 gift cards to the scammer, which eventually totaled around $10,000, that the scammer said he was using to secretly open a separate bank account from his girlfriend so that he could eventually leave the relationship.
After McKayla shared all the evidence she had, the Catfished YouTube team did some research and found information that directly contradicted many things the scammer was telling McKayla.
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.comOne example was a text the scammer sent claiming to not be responding because he was cooking, yet the team found that the picture he sent of his lasagna was from Martha Stewart’s cookbook.
The scammer had also sent a check to McKayla that the team found had a fake signature commonly used by online scammers.
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.com“Love makes you do crazy, stupid, irrational things, I promise. And trauma does one heck of a thing to a person. So instead of judging that person on why they did that to a total stranger that they had never met, maybe look and see if that person has been traumatized by something,” McKayla said.
CatFished YouTube Channel / Via youtube.com“If you’re someone like me, you’re afraid of abandonment and you’re a real big people pleaser and you’re very codependent,” she said. “These scammers, they just kind of come in and they leech off that.” McKayla said, according to People.
Online scammers are clever, so here are some tips to protect yourself and your money. According to Australia’s Scamwatch, you should never give money or personal information to anyone online, never click a link in a message, and contact your bank if you suspect any unusual activity.
You can watch Catfished’s episode on McKayla here.
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