{"id":57808,"date":"2024-04-09T11:32:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T11:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=57808"},"modified":"2024-04-09T11:32:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T11:32:43","slug":"i-was-catfished-by-a-fake-gary-barlow-on-facebook-woman-62-reveals-how-she-was-sucked-in-by-24-year-old-scammer-from-nigeria-who-pretended-to-be-the-take-that-star-and-bombarded-her-with-compliment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/09\/i-was-catfished-by-a-fake-gary-barlow-on-facebook-woman-62-reveals-how-she-was-sucked-in-by-24-year-old-scammer-from-nigeria-who-pretended-to-be-the-take-that-star-and-bombarded-her-with-compliment\/","title":{"rendered":"I was catfished by a fake Gary Barlow on Facebook: Woman, 62, reveals how she was sucked in by 24-year-old scammer from Nigeria who pretended to be the Take That star and bombarded her with compliments before asking her for money"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24481\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/facebook.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/facebook-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/facebook-293x293.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A woman has revealed how she was catfished by a man pretending to be\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-1ff7df70-f657-11ee-9d5e-bff8db9f8129\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/gary-barlow\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gary Barlow<\/a><\/span> &#8211; who turned out to be a scammer attempting to take her money.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13287373\/catfished-fake-Gary-Barlow-Facebook.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A woman has revealed how she was catfished by a man pretending to be\u00a0Gary Barlow &#8211; who turned out to be a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-relationships"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Romance-scam.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57809,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57808\/revisions\/57809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}