A Kentucky lady has claimed that she ended her marriage and misplaced $10,000 as a consequence of a scammer pretending to be “Stranger Issues” star Dacre Montgomery. In a Might 17 episode of the YouTube sequence “Catfished,” the girl, whose title is McKala, says she met somebody claiming to be Montgomery on a web-based discussion board for artists. The 2 “hit it off, however in fact I am suspicious from the get-go, till he begins doing issues that make me imagine that he’s who he’s,” she says.

Apparently, the Montgomery impersonator satisfied her she was speaking to the precise “Stranger Issues” star by telling her to look at the “Stranger Issues” season 4 episode “Expensive Billy” earlier than it premiered. “He confirmed up in that episode,” she tells “Catfished.” “I used to be like, effectively, who else would know that?” She additionally says the scammer despatched her poems that appeared much like Montgomery’s writing in his 2020 ebook “DKMH: Poems by Dacre Montgomery.” Finally, 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 method. The scammer apparently advised her he was unable to name or FaceTime her as a result of Pollock was all the time round, and likewise mentioned Pollock managed his financial institution accounts. To be able to depart, the scammer advised McKala, he wanted cash. McKala says she despatched him a complete of round $10,000.

Finally, the scammer advised McKala that she had to decide on between her husband or Montgomery. “There is not any competitors,” McKala says she thought on the time. Finally, her husband left, leaving McKala alone along with her 7-year-old daughter.

Within the “Catfished” episode, McKala appears to nonetheless be holding on to threads of hope that the particular person she’s been chatting with may truly be Montgomery. On the similar time, she appears conscious of the components that led her down the rip-off rabbit gap. “In case you’re somebody like me, you are afraid of abandonment and also you’re an actual large folks pleaser and also you’re very codependent,” McKala says. “These scammers, they only type of are available in and so they leech off that. It is a dopamine repair each time you get up, each time you go to mattress, a number of hours a day. It is a repair. It is a hit.”

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

Watch the total episode under.