It’s not every day you see a celebrity get fooled by the misguided actions of devious
cyber criminals, but Troye Sivan revealed he’s fallen victim to being catfished by
Russian hackers in a hilarious tell-all video.
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It’s 2020 and clearly NOTHING is off the table, so let’s just tack on ‘celebrities
being catfished’ to the list while we’re ahead.
What a trip this year has been, and we’re not even a third of the way through… clearly
nobody is safe from the chaos, including celebrities, which brings me to report that in a strange
turn of events, Troye Sivan revealed he was catfished by Russian hackers who pretended
to be activist Greta Thunberg’s father.
Troye took to Twitter Thursday in a 5-minute long story time video, to reveal that he’d
fallen victim to being catfished, and details everything that went down that led him to
the realization that he was being conned.
He started off by saying that his manager, Dani, reached out to him and said, “My dude,
I have the sickest opportunity of our entire careers thus far.”
Troye immediately became interested and asked what exactly the opportunity was, saying quote,
“She said, ‘Today, I had a phone call with Greta Thunberg's dad.
Her father and I spoke on the phone today.’
So I was like, ‘Well, what did you talk about?’ and she’s like, ‘Greta is a
huge fan and Greta is working on this thing called Stars Save the Earth.
Is it okay if I give Greta your phone number?’”
Troye didn’t hesitate to say YES, and took a second to gush over everything Greta is
doing for the world in order to raise awareness for causes that ring near and dear to her
heart.
Troye went on to add that after Dani’s ‘amazing’ call, she quickly shot him over Greta’s
phone number.
Troye immediately put her number in his phone, and decided to reach out to her on WhatsApp,
which is when things started to get a little weird…
In his message to her, he wrote, “Hey Greta!
It’s Troye Sivan here.
Just wanted to say how incredible the work is that you’re doing -- I’m so inspired
by you.
Here to help however I can.”
After almost an entire day went by, Troye gets an alarming message from his manager
who suddenly began backtracking on the ‘great opportunity’...
Troye revealed how Dani came to realize this, saying, “Dani’s boyfriend is Swedish,
and she and Oscar were sitting on the couch and she told him, ‘I had this crazy call
with Greta Thunberg’s dad this morning, but his English is really really bad.’”
Oscar, having heard Greta’s father’s voice during interviews in the past, denied that
his English was actually bad, so the two began watching YouTube interviews of Greta’s dad,
and as they began listening to videos, Dani realized that this was NOT the person she
had spoken to on the phone earlier.
Dani immediately texted Troye with the news that there’s a chance these two have been
catfished…
After Dani revealed the bad news to Troye, he then revealed that all he could do was
laugh hysterically over the entire situation.
But that wasn’t even the end of it…
Troye went on to say after so much time had passed by, he received a message from the
fake Greta number, saying, “So, how are you?”
He was smart not to respond and left the message as is, BUT Troye went onto add that a few
weeks ago he saw a headline that Prince Harry got pranked in the same way, saying, “Turns
out it’s these Russian hackers that did this elaborate scheme.
They got Bernie Sanders, they got Prince Harry, they almost got me (they got Dani).”
So as it turns out, these hackers now have Troye’s phone number, BUT the good news
is that they don’t have any form of bank account information or anything tied to his
financials… silver lining, right?
Fans who tuned into Troye’s video had some fun of their own and also got a kick out of
the fact that he was totally catfished, so much so, that Troye even shared some reactions
to his Instagram story.
One user tweeted a photo of a clown, writing, “Hi Greta!
It’s troye Sivan here.
Just wanted to say how incredible the work is that you’re doing - I’m so inspired
by you.”
Another user wrote, “Troye waiting for Greta to text him back,” with a photo of Monster’s
Inc.’s Mike Wazowski all dappered up.
So how does someone of high celebrity status get pranked so easily?
Some people say this was all a ploy in order to promote his upcoming single ‘Take Yourself
Home’ dropping next week, but let’s be real, we were gonna stream his song regardless.
The fact that it fooled both Troye AND his manager means it was pretty legit, and could’ve
happened to any celebrity.
So if you do get a call from someone you don’t know claiming to be Greta Thunberg’s dad
asking for your phone number, it’s probably best to hit ‘ignore’ and go on with your
day.
Now that we’ve got that covered, I wanna know what you guys thought about Troye’s
story, and if you’ve ever found yourself in a similar situation, professional or personally,
so get the story times going down here in the comments.
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exposed MTV for making her look bad…
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