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A Stranger Things fan named McKayla claimed that she was catfished by a con artist, posing arsenic the Netflix bid prima Dacre Montgomery. The azygous parent and movie manager from Kentucky shared her communicative with the Catfished YouTube channel, and she claimed that she sent the scammer astir $10,000 successful gifts and that she near her ex-husband successful the process.
McKayla said she near a station looking to collaborate with different filmmakers connected a web forum erstwhile she received a connection from idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium Dacre, who played Billy connected Stranger Things. She said that she was “obsessed” with the show, and she began messaging the person. “Of course, I’m suspicious from the get-go, until helium starts doing things that marque maine judge that helium is who helium is,” she said.
The scammer posed arsenic Dacre to get wealth from the woman. (David Fisher/Shutterstock)
Some of the ways that McKayla said that the catfish posed arsenic Dacre included him telling her to tune successful for the fourth episode of season four of Stranger Things, where his quality Billy makes an appearance. She besides said that he’d nonstop her poems akin successful benignant to the ones successful his poesy collection DK MH.
She said that they began speaking regularly online, and she’d vent to him astir problems successful her relationship. She besides said that the catfish claimed that helium was having relationship issues with Liv Pinnock, who the histrion has been dating since 2017. She claimed that the idiosyncratic posing arsenic Dacre aboriginal asked her to beryllium his girlfriend.
After their online narration had heated up, she said that the scammer had fixed her a large choice. “He gave maine an ultimatum. He said, ‘Listen, it’s either your hubby oregon it’s me.’ I said, ‘Look, there’s nary competition. You dainty maine better,'” she said. “So I told my ex-husband. I said, ‘Listen, it’s not moving out. You’re not letting maine beryllium me. You’re not letting maine beryllium free. I deliberation you request to leave.’ So helium left. Within 2 months, helium was gone.”
After splitting up with her ex-husband, she said that the idiosyncratic made a assertion astir Dacre’s woman Liv was precise controlling erstwhile it came to money. “He said, ‘Well, if I effort to usage my slope account, she’s implicit it. It’s joint. So she keeps each the stuff. So I would person to inquire her each the time,'” she explained. “He said, ‘Would I beryllium capable to inquire you to assistance maine present and determination if I determine to abstracted from her?’ And I said, ‘Well, I can’t assistance much, but I tin assistance a small spot present and there. Before I knew it, it was turning into $100 and $200 acquisition cards.”
McKayla opened up astir her acquisition connected the ‘Catfished’ YouTube channel. (Catfished/Youtube)
While the scammer claimed that helium would yet wage McKayla back, she said that she yet realized that she’d sent him “$10,000ish.” She said the scammer did yet nonstop her money, telling her to enactment it into a slope relationship for him.
The squad from Catfished did immoderate probe and came to the decision that the idiosyncratic was apt a “romance scammer,” taking vantage of McKayla by researching points of vulnerability for her. The ma said she didn’t privation others to autumn for the aforesaid scam.
