Woman ‘catfished’ by Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb impersonator scammed out of retirement money

nme.com:

Barry Gibb from The Bee Gees.YouTube channel Catfished revealed on October 4 that a woman by the name of Wanda believed she was in a relationship with the singer, despite Gibb being married to wife Linda Gray since 1970.The romance began when Wanda was browsing one of Gibb’s web pages, where a button said she could message him.

Though she was suspicious at first – the impersonator turned down a FaceTime offer, claiming a fan tried to blackmail him through video before – Wanda was eventually charmed by the fraud.“It started getting really intimate, and we started really chatting and talking about visiting and stuff like that,” she said.Wanda also questioned his decades-long marriage to Gray; in response, the person pretending to be Barry Gibb said he was leaving his wife for her.

He additionally requested Wanda to search for houses in Oregon that they could live in together.The fraud referred her to a realtor, Aaron Williams; Wanda sent him a total of over £9,000 ($11,000) from her retirement fund.

The fake Barry Gibb also claimed he couldn’t access his money and didn’t want people to know about his relationship with Wanda just yet.