Woman Catfished by Bee Gees' Barry Gibb Impersonator, Scammed

A girl has been catfished by somebody impersonating Bee Gees’ legend Barry Gibb, and scammed out of hundreds of {dollars} from her retirement fund, in addition to cash donated by the musician’s followers.

Catfished simply shared the story on their YouTube channel yesterday (Oct. 4). The girl, whose identify is Wanda, believed that she was in a web based relationship with Gibb for a while. Wanda claims she went on one among Gibb’s net pages in the future and clicked on a button that gave her the choice to message him.

They started exchanging messages, and Wanda admitted she did not imagine it was him at first. The particular person performing as Gibb declined her request for a video chat, and stated that he’d been blackmailed by a fan as soon as after talking with them via video.

“Then it started getting really intimate, and we started really chatting and talking about visiting and stuff like that,” Wanda defined, including that she’d by no means been charmed by somebody that approach earlier than, and that his messages began to get extra sexual over time.

Wanda was conscious that Gibb was married, and upon looking out, found that he was nonetheless together with his spouse, Linda Gray. The couple married in 1970 and have 5 kids collectively, in addition to seven grandchildren. But, Wanda stated that the Gibb impersonator instructed her he was going to depart his spouse for her, and satisfied her to begin searching for a home for them to maneuver into collectively in Oregon.

The individual pretending to be Gibb launched Wanda to their pal Aaron Williams, who was apparently a realtor, and despatched him a complete of $11,000 from her retirement fund to pay for the home that she thought she was going to reside in with Gibb.

As time went on, the impersonator made a number of excuses as to why they could not meet Wanda in individual but, together with that they did not have entry to their cash they usually did not need folks to learn about it. Thus, they’d followers make donations to an account that Wanda was then capable of switch again to them via MoneyGram and PayPal. She forwarded a complete of $20,000 to the pretend Gibb, which they instructed her was going to assist get via the divorce.

“He ended up signing a contract to do a commercial, but the commercial never came out. I guess he passed out during the commercial and ended up in the hospital,” Wanda continued, recalling a number of different incidents that occurred afterward.

“Gibb” continued to place off doing any kind of video name or voice name with Wanda, assuring her that they might be collectively quickly in individual. Yet, she held onto the idea that this individual was Gibb as a result of the connection made her really feel actually good, and she or he had a “gut feeling” that it actually was him.

Fortunately, Catfished was capable of persuade her to cease sending cash to this individual. The group reached out to the realtor that listed the home in Oregon that Wanda and Gibb have been supposed to maneuver into, and found that it was nonetheless available on the market, and that no funds had been acquired.

Furthermore, a put up on Gibb’s verified Facebook web page, which was written by the musician’s son Stephen, warned that there had been different accounts impersonating his father.

“I am posting on his behalf today as it seems there are several profiles pretending to be Dad on Facebook and other social media platforms. Please report and block these scam artists to the platform,” the put up learn.

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The Catfished group then confirmed Wanda latest footage of Gibb and his spouse that proved they’re nonetheless married. Wanda was evidently dissatisfied by the conclusion.

Poor Wanda.

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