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Woman Scammed by Man Pretending to be 'Stranger Things' Star

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0:00 he has his fake profile that every day I have an alarm to tell him to shut the ████ up do any of you guys recognize this man right here that's the guy from stranger things yeah the stranger that does look like you yeah it is the guy the guy that was having sex with all the moms and uh that's a pool yeah Dr Montgomery yeah Billy spoiler bruh spoiler alert it's a good show it comes back to life does he no oh I didn't watch the recent stranger the third one was don't spoil it so uh there's a there's a thing that's happened recently with this dude what do you think it is Nick I think I heard about this he started ████ moms in real life let's go into the thing that Joe said

0:50 what's the thing Joe said he started ████ moms in real life I mean he probably does probably I'm sure he does a little bit true books tons of moms but everybody like my age are pretty much like Mom's age now anyway so it wouldn't be that weird do you think actors actors are those type of roles that they play maybe I think a little bit maybe some of them maybe after their job they've become that if you if they're really good I don't think they are if they're methods because they're just not good at acting yeah right if they're really good that's like Angelina Jolie um yeah they just became that after they they lived it she does look like a badass all the time though so I would assume that once the camera stops rolling she's probably not like super soft and since she's probably still a badass looks like she doesn't smile much yeah just cuz but she has like Liam

1:40 Neeson probably is always losing his family like always taking calls it seems consistent I think Heath Ledger turned into Joker too much and then it was too much yeah yeah it was Tuesday too much in his head well luckily what happened with Dr Montgomery isn't really uh it doesn't have anything really to do with actual him at all there was a person out there who actually believed they were talking to him why they got catfished they got catfish catfishing is strong bro but in a way that's so surprising to me I think like no matter what you do there's someone that's willing to fall for a catfish dupe like oh yeah as Extreme as you make it yeah somebody is out there that can fall for it and this is one of those examples this girl believes she's a huge fan of stranger things huge fan of Dr Montgomery somehow she believed she was

2:31 speaking to the real Dr Montgomery to the point where um Decker Montgomery you know was was trying to uh convince her to leave her husband and she did she divorced her husband for Dr Montgomery and then she believed that she was dating Dr Montgomery all online who Derek Montgomery is dating somebody like another famous person but this fake you gotta keep it secret dude yeah he was saying that he's really in love with her I'm really in love with you yeah but online though online just online I never saw him face to face nothing and he's saying that like oh uh don't tell anyone because I'm still technically dating live and I don't want the public to find out that I I love you give you the inside scoop yeah so then he goes on to this catfish and then you see the lady she's like 58 and yeah pretty right yeah

3:21 yeah oh no sad and lonely and yeah you can picture it so one of the things where um I guess one of the pieces of evidence on how he was able to convince her is still a little bit like how did he do this because he tells her to tune in like uh stranger things season four he's like oh tune in on tonight's episode specifically tells her that episode that gets released yeah and uh DACA Montgomery makes a return appearance on that episode but nobody knew that yeah whoa but he did yeah I guess do you think maybe it was just a coincidence because he's a dead character in the series but he does come back for one thing as a not at you could probably look it up on IMDb though maybe yeah you know you could see that by episode if you're really doing this to another level you could that's true you probably could find that I'm wondering how do you know that well because I catfish people

4:12 what was the goal for the cafe like was it was it to make money I'll tell you so at one point he tells he tells this girl that uh hey um I don't have any money because me and Liv have a joint account and she doesn't let me buy things yeah and she if she checks always the money she checks my statements so you buy me some Bitcoin so this girl ends up sending the fake DACA Montgomery ten thousand dollars no what what has this woman ever met her met him like in person no of course not what about FaceTime nothing bro I'm telling you catfishing is a powerful tool dude if you take my master class you guys he knows there should be a how to catfish master class I mean there's enough material out there there's a show called Catfish bro how do you not know

5:03 that you see the patterns bro you can see it but the reason is blind y'all so desperate for connections but but she's also married crazy I know and she did divorce her husband that's just ████ up though like getting her to leave her husband well how how old deserve it at this point uh how old was the catfisher I don't think did they catch the captain they never found out who was the guy it was probably some dude in Eastern Europe or something bro when you sell somebody a dream though like it's hard for them to ████ pull themselves out and they really but if you're willing to leave your spouse for it then you deserve to be sold yeah no for sure for sure well maybe your husband was a piece of ████ we don't know dude hot take a lot of the people that are being catfished and scammed it's because they want to believe it yeah they really want to be in there they want to there's probably

5:53 really friends and family telling them like yo this is ████ stupid you don't know I'm like I do you don't know you're stupid dude that is honestly what she said she said that like um every day that she wakes up to another message it's like it's because they want dopamine hit and yeah she's continuing yeah totally dude These Guys these catfishing guys they're so good at leaving that like breadcrumb Trail to love you know I fall for it I'd fall for it also like you know it's all it's like a little bit come on let's have a little empathy for this one it can happen to anybody and on the one hand you like feel bad for like the husband she left on the other hand it's like good riddance you know what I mean yeah you can support me anyway I fall for it knowing that it's a catfish because I want I like I like the

6:43 interaction I just want to talk he asks for 10 and Joe sends him 20. you guys ever never been in a situation like this at all right catfished or was Cafe either way either way I don't know why you're bringing that up check his master class dude and I've never been ████ catfished ever man dude there's a there's a friend of mine uh he's like in the dance world he gets made fun of all the time because he has the worst catfish situation right now he does he keep getting catfish no he got he got massively catfished one time oh but um he thought he was chatting with this girl I think like they just met online and stuff they're talking for a really long time and they're like in Love or Whatever never did like a FaceTime or anything like that this is also before FaceTime this is maybe like 15 years ago yeah Skype right yeah there's no excuse still but then uh so he eventually yeah

7:38 I think uh so he has to drive like a good amount of time over to meet her at her house he drives gets to the house he got flowers like stereotypes flowers in his hand knocks on the door so a guy named Charlie comes in and then this is what this is is what he sees okay [Music] I'm sorry I lied for real ████ up no way not even kidding I didn't do anything oh was she like a smoker and she quit and she has a voice box I think it was a dude no it wasn't a dude it was a girl but she was disabled in like a wheelchair and it had like a like a Stephen Hawking style she had a talk box what did she send was it like her picture but like she was she was lonely

8:30 so she sent someone else's picture yeah someone else's pictures she simulated entirely so he ████ held it down huh he was like I don't care and then he ████ busted that ████ he actually hung out with her he ████ her dude he said I don't care I'm sorry I lied ████ it but low-key that's that's the best case no he actually wanted to be your friend and like hung out with her yeah that's a sweetheart because like he understood that like oh you just wanted the human connection yeah and it's like difficult to get it would have been way cooler if he yelled at her a bunch called her a bunch of names knocked her chair over it yeah that would have been way cooler people are they still friends to this day no I

9:20 don't think so what was the point uh so wait they met in person yeah right so what was the point of her bringing him getting him to come to I think people are hopeful they're like maybe they like me for who I am it's not about the looks why didn't she want her like but also too it might be like a guilt thing it might just be like ████ I just gotta I can't do this you're betting on that the connection is stronger than that's true yeah I guess or in that situation that catfish that catfish wasn't so much I'm gonna scam this person for their money it was uh I'm going to lie in hopes of something greater too I think that is the end goal right for a lot a lot of the time I don't know if they're looking that far either I think it's like a thing where it just go goes out of proportion and before they know it it's like yeah all the lies I think I've never had like money catfish because those are really

10:11 easy to find out but I I think it's like sometimes they're not that easy jokes profile catfish for like intimacy yeah so that's that's I would consider that one fake like catfish for intimacy it's like it's heartbreaking at the same time so it's like you could have yeah because as though I think when people do that they don't like themselves like they don't they're not confident with what they look like yeah because I think um the two examples that I caught it was one was uh like a like a gay boy that was in the closet that wanted attention right and then another one was a girl but she was uncomfortable with who she what she would look like oh all right yeah yeah so I think like they'll have like a hot girl or whatever that they think you know a lot of people would like and then they'll use those as a

11:09 you know what I could kind of look like like I kind of look like them so they justify like I kind of look like that so it's okay oh my God that's the justification yeah what do you think Anthony's fake profile is thinking my fake oh yeah when I'm when I'm catfishing people you have a fake profile no the one thing Ryan that's being you oh the one that's messaging you and the one that you keep on saying he has this fake profile that every day I I have an alarm to tell him to shut the ████ up I just keep saying shut up shut up you suck every day and he's always like you suck you shut up [Music]

12:02 thank you

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