Woman Catfished by Dacre Montgomery Impersonator

A Kentucky lady has claimed that she ended her marriage and misplaced $10,000 as a consequence of a scammer pretending to be “Stranger Things” star Dacre Montgomery. In a May 17 episode of the YouTube collection “Catfished,” the girl, whose identify is McKala, says she met somebody claiming to be Montgomery on an internet discussion board for artists. The two “hit it off, but of course I’m suspicious from the get-go, until he starts doing things that make me believe that he is who he is,” she says.

Apparently, the Montgomery impersonator satisfied her she was speaking to the precise “Stranger Things” star by telling her to look at the “Stranger Things” season 4 episode “Dear Billy” earlier than it premiered. “He showed up in that episode,” she tells “Catfished.” “I was like, well, who else would know that?” She additionally says the scammer despatched her poems that appeared just like Montgomery’s writing in his 2020 guide “DKMH: Poems by Dacre Montgomery.” Eventually, she says, the scammer requested her to be their girlfriend.

McKala claims the faux Montgomery typically talked to her about how he was about to interrupt up with Montgomery’s real-life girlfriend, Liv Pollock, whom he claimed was “controlling” — one thing McKala associated to, as she claims her ex-husband was the identical approach. The scammer apparently instructed her he was unable to name or FaceTime her as a result of Pollock was all the time round, and in addition stated Pollock managed his financial institution accounts. In order to depart, the scammer instructed McKala, he wanted cash. McKala says she despatched him a complete of round $10,000.

Eventually, the scammer instructed McKala that she had to decide on between her husband or Montgomery. “There’s no competition,” McKala says she thought on the time. Eventually, her husband left, leaving McKala alone along with her 7-year-old daughter.

In the “Catfished” episode, McKala appears to nonetheless be holding on to threads of hope that the individual she’s been chatting with may truly be Montgomery. At the identical time, she appears conscious of the elements that led her down the rip-off rabbit gap. “If you’re someone like me, you’re afraid of abandonment and you’re a real big people pleaser and you’re very codependent,” McKala says. “These scammers, they just kind of come in and they leech off that. It’s a dopamine fix every time you wake up, every time you go to bed, several hours a day. It’s a fix. It’s a hit.”

Reps for Montgomery didn’t instantly reply to POPSUGAR’s request for remark.

Watch the complete episode beneath.