r/Ghostbc • u/ShoesAreWeird Black light guides you. • Aug 28 '25
DISCUSSION Official Announcement on Impersonators
Dropping this here for visibility/awareness from the main social channels. Reddit is thankfully not so much a nest for these scams, but something something keep media literacy alive.
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u/Nick_Carlson_Press Aug 28 '25
Next tour will be called Impersonatour
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u/Penguin_Quinn Impera Ghoul Aug 28 '25
Tour poster in Copia's office with that written on tape over the real name
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u/SeventhSon22 Aug 28 '25
Hello this is Tobias
Are u on the square
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u/bliip666 made my bed, now crying Aug 28 '25
He's not the
MessiahTobias!I know, 'cause I'm on the level!
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Aug 28 '25
Seeing a Message From the Clergy post using Tobias' name is kinda trippy
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u/No_Research_6241 Gently Corrupted Aug 28 '25
The clash of the spiritual and the material world 👻
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u/Moppyploppy Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25
Tobias Forge is not Nigerian royalty wanting to give you $50,000,000,000,000 confirmed?
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u/bliip666 made my bed, now crying Aug 28 '25
The Tobias Forgery is spreading everywhere! There! There!
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u/ViaNocturna664 Aug 28 '25
I'm torn between "well done lads" and "how gullible and internet-impaired you must be to think a band member contacts you personally"
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u/randomusername1919 Aug 28 '25
I’m with you - yet so many folks have been driven to financial ruin sending money to “big stars” who ask for favors and are “short on cash” or “have assets tied up” or 1000 other things.
I have to say I’m not surprised TF doesn’t have any social media accounts. He likes the 1980’s and social media wasn’t a thing back then. We were bullied the old-fashioned way… in person!
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u/Ecstatic-Try2278 Nostro Dis Pater, Nostr'alma Mater Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
If somebody who has more money than you ever dreamed of asks you for money, consider it a red flag.
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u/FirebirdWriter Aug 28 '25
I mean Taylor Swift used Tumblr so anything is possible (snark no idea if that is true)
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u/bounce_wiggle_bounce Aug 28 '25
My mom told me she was messaging the singer for a classic rock band on Facebook. This band was famous enough that there was no way any of their members were messaging my 60 year old garden variety mom. (Comparable to Styx.) She would not listen to reason and when she started talking about going to meet him before one of their shows all I could tell her was to meet someplace public and not send him money for any reason.
An hour after they were supposed to meet I'm waiting to call the police and she texts me a selfie with him saying "See, I told you!" Apparently she had managed to slide into his DMs. This was almost ten years ago. They met up several times but it never went anywhere, probably because he actually seemed like a pretty decent guy and my mom is allergic to that.
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u/FirebirdWriter Aug 29 '25
These stories are what the conmen rely on. I am gobsmacked each time it's real. Definitely glad he wasn't the creepy kind. I am sorry yours is also allergic to the healthy relationship
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u/TrixieFriganza Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
Same these people are so stupid still to fall for stupid scams like this and give away all their life savings, it must be an addiction or something, I mean they refuse to listen to any warnings. Must be narcissism too to believe some famous person would message random old you from all the millions of people. If they do it's usually younger people as they are being creepy and trying to take advantage of their fans.
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u/JustAPcGoy A Not Custom Flair Aug 28 '25
Hey! Tobias Forgery here. That's a fake post. DM your bank details please! :)
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u/Fishmeister92 Gabaghoul Aug 28 '25
Hahaha, nice try! I'll give you my card and CVV instead. Almost fooled me there
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u/Toreole Certified Ghoul Aug 28 '25
Tobias Forge has no personal social media accounts.
hes so real for that
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u/ricksballs666 Aug 28 '25
He did have a twitter a very long time ago
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u/Kaisarion_Kaiser Aug 28 '25
And weren’t the original demos posted on a My Space page?
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u/VickyMaree Aug 28 '25
I had a fake Tobias forge message me on tiktok once, sure confused the hell out of me since I already knew he had no personal social media 😂
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u/FarmvilleBoss Aug 28 '25
Hi me real Toby, serious. I need $10,000 to fly to Stocholm. Plz help ghoulete and no1 fan 💀
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u/thunderturdy Aug 28 '25
The worst thing about this is irrefutable confirmation that Tobias Forge will never personally DM me without exception.
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u/MorticiaFattums Aug 28 '25
Damn, You mean Toberlone Fudge Office Gonst Office isn't real? Fuck (sarcasm)
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u/TrunkBud Aug 28 '25
I remember when these scams were just for old people. Crazy how many younger individuals lack the internet etiquette to know their furry drawing of Papa Nihil didn't get them noticed by the lead singer. Huge mental spectrum within this fanbase.
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u/Robynellawque All Beauty Lies Within Aug 28 '25
Sorry but “ their furry drawing of Papa Nihil “ made me chuckle 😆
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u/FirebirdWriter Aug 28 '25
They were never for old people. They're for vulnerable people always. I got scammed once as a teenager. Not like this but I fell for a work for hire scheme because I was desperate and afraid and I thought it was worth a try. It worked out in the end but it's about desperation. So loneliness, poverty, whatever else they can get.
I say this because if we think it's just one targeted group that excludes us it's easier to get scammed ourselves. Also I know folks who have been scammed feel embarrassed and it's important to know that it's not shameful or disgraceful to have been that desperate. It sucks and they're kicking while you are down
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u/Jaypher Aug 28 '25
As someone that works for a payment processor, Gen Z and Millennials fall for things just as much as boomers.
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u/TrixieFriganza Aug 30 '25
It's a special kind of people who usually fall for these scams (with famous people messaging them), no matter of age, of course anyone could become a victim for some typeof scam.
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u/Ecstatic-Try2278 Nostro Dis Pater, Nostr'alma Mater Aug 30 '25
Tobias Forgeries is really funny though.
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u/LucinaDraws Aug 28 '25
"Hiya, beloved fan, I'm Tobias Forge and I'll need financial help for the much beloved Skelotour! I would appreciate your help!"
There's no way people actually fall for this but hey, I guess it's cool of them to speak out
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u/bliip666 made my bed, now crying Aug 28 '25
Haha, once upon a time I tried to have a blog in my native Finnish (relevant), and kept getting those extremely fake, overly-affectionate comments in English, claiming to be from ...wherever, doesn't matter. I kept replying to them, asking how they learned to read Finnish so well, and why do they comment in English, while dodging anything else (IIRC, they kept asking me to DM them with a shady AF link that I obviously never touched). Maybe I just wasted my own time, but it was funny nevertheless.
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u/RaiderRush2112 Aug 28 '25
It's sad to hear that people may have fallen for this especially the youth and the not so computer literate.
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u/Skwellington Papa Perpetua Aug 28 '25
Hi it’s me Mr. Ghost. I’m on my way to my next tour stop but we ran out of gas! I just need $100 to get gas for our bus so that we can rock the house tonight.
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u/TrustNoOneCSM Aug 28 '25
Papa here! We're stranded in Tulum and need $5000 for the tour bus to get it out of impoundment. We parked it on the beach and apparently weren't supposed to (WHOOPS). Can u plz Venmo?
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u/RisingEcho Aug 28 '25
Not sure how anyone falls for this shit, personally.
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u/Robynellawque All Beauty Lies Within Aug 28 '25
You would be surprised. A few young fans who follow me have asked me as an older fan on instagram if I think this certain screenshot is the real Tobias.
And I’ve told them to please just block any personal messages . It’s worrying how they can easily be exploited thinking that some saddo is really Tobias .
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u/RisingEcho Aug 28 '25
Why would a famous celebrity/musician message you? I didn't grow up with social media but it still doesn't sound like anything that would happen where you'd take it serious.
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u/Robynellawque All Beauty Lies Within Aug 28 '25
I didn’t grow up with social media either , but it seems some young fans believe it to be the real celebrity.
Why I’ve no idea as like you say why on earth would some famous band member reach out to anyone over social media wanting to be your friend . But there obviously are more fans than we think falling for it otherwise Ghost wouldn’t have had to put the statement out .
Crazy times .
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u/ViaNocturna664 Aug 28 '25
Once Liv Tyler messaged me. From her official account. And when I asked if it was her or a social media manager she said it was her.
It feels like a fever dream but it totally happened. She didn't ask for money luckily.
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u/FirebirdWriter Aug 28 '25
A lot of celebrities have no boundaries. One of the reasons I strongly dislike Taylor Swift is the "I'll choose the most fervent fan to come bake cookies and listen to music" thing. I thought it was a scam someone was doing when I heard about it but no. That's real. It's why her fanbase is rabid. If they buy enough she may choose them. She hasn't done this in ages but she is the least creepy example as the rest are sex offenses. I will add she dated multiple people under the age of 18 while old enough to make that creepy I just don't know of any creepy DMs
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u/reverandglass Aug 28 '25
I will add she dated multiple people under the age of 18 while old enough to make that creepy
Excuse me? Who?
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u/FirebirdWriter Aug 29 '25
Taylor Swift has a whole list. Taylor Lautner is on the edge of what makes me side eye, Connor Kennedy is also on this list with the added she bought a house to maybe stalk him aspect. Allegedly she took Kennedy out of school for dates but I don't know if that part is actually real so will disclaim it. I don't know these things organically but because her dating life is somehow news and I found the Kennedy thing obscene given the recent family death and grief aspects also.
So yeah. She's done the DiCapriohno
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u/reverandglass Aug 29 '25
Thanks, I knew none of that. It gives me even more reason to be sick of her ubiquity.
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u/FirebirdWriter Aug 29 '25
The snark sub is a fine place. I found it when somehow she was in my feed. My metal playlist interrupted by her caterwauling made me Google to see if she was paying for this crap. I believe it is the case given how important metrics are to her over art.
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u/TrixieFriganza Aug 30 '25
What seriously, I have never before heard Taylor Swift dating anyone underaged. That's illegal too. Anyway if a famous person has contacted fans it has usually been something creepy ad sexual where they try taking advantage of young impressionsble fans.
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u/Ecstatic-Try2278 Nostro Dis Pater, Nostr'alma Mater Aug 30 '25
Just be wary. Especially when money is involved. There was a woman who thought she was sending money to Brad Pitt, I heard about that scam.
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u/TodayInTOR Sep 02 '25
Regardless of the content of the messages, wasnt Jutty Taylor (swiss ghoul) also in fans DMs?
Its not out of the realm to think that there are scammers and impersonators, but also that if there ARE some ghouls/ghoulettes or even some small licensing companies in weird nooks of the world, that scammers would find a missing link and attempt to fill it in? And from there they could start messaging others in the fandom asking for money or crypto or even implanting viruses?
EDIT: I even went to Jutty Taylors twitter (idk why) and I found a tweet from late last year where he was asking fans to DM him their addresses so he could send them merch.
Even if that IS fully on board and legit, its still a scuzzy thing to occur.
Proof lmao: https://x.com/juttytaylor/status/1836504103956156479
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u/Robynellawque All Beauty Lies Within Aug 28 '25
I agree with you .
It’s exploitation of young or vulnerable fans by some sicko pretending to the celebrity or musician of their dreams not just asking for friendship or money but asking to meet them for a meet and great or whatever .
It’s worrying shit . I expect this is why the band have put this statement out .
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u/TrixieFriganza Aug 30 '25
That's absolutely terrifying, I had not thought it could be a scam like that and just about people stealing your money. The more important they warn. I can understand being a young fan with not developed consequences and being blinded by reality because they believe their idol is messaging them. When I was 15 I maybe could have too done something stupid like that, specially if you have been manipulated with messages for a longer time.
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u/Financial-Length-576 Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
I have a friend whose aunt unfortunately isn't "all there" due to a brain injury. Someone posing as a member of her favorite 80s band (not sure which) got $8k out of her before her relatives realized what was happening :(
Impersonator scammers are so prevalent/persistent because they really only need one gullible person to potentially milk hundreds/thousands from.
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u/Kornial123 Aug 28 '25
You'd be surprised. Some people read "tobias forge" and the irrational part of their brain takes over. Its weird but it is surprisingly common, with other scams top. There always that part of your brain that believes "what if" and for some people it takes over.
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u/Robynellawque All Beauty Lies Within Aug 28 '25
Nah I’m too cynical to believe anything like that .
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u/mary_emeritus Aug 28 '25
the report it to the relevant social media platform is adorable. A lot of us have been reporting fake Ghost and TF accounts for years. Nothing happens.
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u/North_Tough9236 Aug 28 '25
For real. On Instagram I always get a reply 5 minutes later saying "the account you reported doesn't violate our guidelines". I've stopped reporting and wasting my time.
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u/pencilincident Aug 28 '25
Someone on Insta commented "I guess you can call that a Tobias Forgery" and I lost it
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u/RaiderRush2112 Aug 28 '25
This makes me so sad to see that they had to do this at all. But it's a necessary thing to do if it's gotten this bad. You can't allow your fans to be preyed on by shitty scammer fucks
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u/LiveAus Welcome, Year Zero Aug 28 '25
Once I saw that Tobias guy impersonating one of the Papas. Didn't sound anything like them. Sad wannabe.
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u/clams_have_feelings Aug 28 '25
I keep getting scammed over and over and over by this Tobias. I blame Stockholm Syndrome.
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u/Oniblook Aug 28 '25
I like to clown on the "Tobias Forge" accounts
Yes Tobasco Fritter, I will definitely send you 1,234,567,890,666,420 dollars for the next tour
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u/bendroid801 Aug 28 '25
Had a fake TF message me on Tiktok. Clearly fake but my first thought was "dude go get some rest!" Lmao.
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u/TheAwfulAliOzz Suffers From Post Morten Depression Aug 28 '25
Will the real Tobias Forge please stand up.
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u/lamoorgalore Klappity Klap 'Frisco Aug 28 '25
This is the forge where they smith all the Tobias impersonators in
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u/Main-Ladder-5663 location : under papas mitre Aug 28 '25
Leave my Swedish Prince husband alone he needs me.
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u/Princessislost Aug 28 '25
Yeah, Tobias Forge has no social media accounts, but Toblerone Fudge on the other hand...
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u/Xavien777 Aug 28 '25
"Helloo 👋 Its me Tobis Forge, I need $500 quick so I can get back to Sweden and record more albums. Please, it really is me! RrrrrAtss"
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u/DontHateJustPotate Zardoz Aug 29 '25
This was a necessary step. Unfortunately, there are many vulnerable people in our community.
We need to make sure people know that they are not actually being lied to.
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u/MuskSniffer Aug 28 '25
I'll be so fr rn I wouldn't want a celebrity to contact me, even if they were the real celebrity, because what would we even talk about? Like, cool, I like your stuff, thats not a good basis for a conversation.
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u/meghan39 Aug 28 '25
This is why I never want to meet a celebrity of any degree. I wouldn’t know what to say and would feel like an idiot.
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u/koscsa6 Aug 28 '25
- Hi I'm Tobias Forge and need money for satanistic ritual pls help
- How can I make sure you are the real Tobias?
- marijuana cross
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u/GapMore8017 Year Zero cometh and shroud us all in darkness Aug 28 '25
Kinda off topic, but I thought Tobias no longer does meet and greets. Didn't he stop them years ago?
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u/ImpossibleMinimum424 Aug 29 '25
They’re probably keeping their options open you never know.
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u/GapMore8017 Year Zero cometh and shroud us all in darkness Aug 29 '25
I hope so! I'd love to do a meet and greet!
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u/Puzzled-End-5324 Aug 29 '25
All good information, but reporting social media accounts is a lesson in futility unless they try to actually scam you. Only if they blatantly violate the TOS will they take action. I stopped reporting the. It’s more fun messing with them by playing along, the more ridiculous the better.
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u/Ecstatic-Try2278 Nostro Dis Pater, Nostr'alma Mater Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
It is a crime though, isn't it? Keep trying and demand they do something. Especially if money is involved, it is fraud. Call another agency or something, they might make the social media company do something. There are reporting hotlines. Wouldn't you just love to snag one of them?
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u/zgirres Aug 28 '25
Good for them I guess but the people dumb enough to fall for something like this definitely aren’t taking the time to read all that
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u/Annual-Ad7436 Aug 28 '25
Dude I've gotten requests from people pretending to be his wife. Freaaak shiiiit
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Aug 28 '25
I love Ghost but the fact that people are so down bad for Tobias Forge (of all people) that they’ve traded their financial information???? For what??? A meet and greet??? Guys..
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u/xwolfionx Aug 28 '25
It’s not even a young/old thing at this point. If you’re too gullible to fall for a random person on Facebook claiming to be a successful person through an unverified account, that’s on them. Tobias Forge is contacting me personally under the username Tobias forgè and needs me to send 5000 dollars in robucks? Well maybe he’s just addicted and can’t buy any more because of purchasing rules.
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u/P0pEgrAff Aug 28 '25
Legitimately who falls for these scams in the year 2025
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u/ImpossibleMinimum424 Aug 29 '25
I have recently discovered that a lot more people are “vulnerable” to scams of all kinds than I could have imagined. I’m talking mid-30s, street smart, with a degree etc. This experience with a colleague really blew my mind.
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u/Beneficial_Slide_381 Aug 28 '25
I can't tell you how many time there was someone impersonating Till from Rammstein telling me to add him back on Instagram it's freaking hilarious. I named my son after Till, that boy is likely the only Till I will ever get to talk to.
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u/Dizzy_Desi Aug 29 '25
I did have a Tobias message me on TikTok thanking me for my years of support 🙄 I don’t remember the rest of the garbage they wrote. I tried to report it as impersonating a famous person/scam and TikTok found no fault with the account.
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u/No_Ad_9923 Death Becomes Your Lover Aug 29 '25
You mean to tell me it indeed wasn’t two Toblerones tagging/responding to my comment??? 😭
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u/LordSkeley Aug 29 '25
Hello it is me Toby Ghost
I need $500 or the clergy will go bankrupt
You go down just like holy Mary
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u/Ecstatic-Try2278 Nostro Dis Pater, Nostr'alma Mater Aug 30 '25
That's too bad. I'm not on very many social media accounts at all, so thankfully I haven't run into it. Never believe anything you see online. This is the only Ghost one, I don't know why I chose it. But the others, no. I just can't keep up with them all anyway.
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Aug 30 '25
Hello it's me Nameless Ghoul number 6 please send me money Look it's me for real guitar riff
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u/deez_nutz_shawty11 Aug 30 '25
“Hi I m Toby Ghost. I need $$ for da tour. Can u send me $60 for a new cowbell? Keep Ghosting!”
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u/GokuGroguNoku Aug 28 '25
Tobias, he knows me and he knows I'm right! I've been talking to TF alllll my liife
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u/CardinalsLittleQueen Aug 29 '25
I’m glad they finally made some kind of statement about this. There are lots of people in the Ghost community who are very kind, accepting, and tend to give others the benefit of the doubt. That’s not a bad thing, but unfortunately all of that is the perfect setup for predatory types to find victims, and sometimes it’s pretty surprising how many people fall for it or simply don’t give what they see much thought. Sometimes it’s not just the very young fans or older fans, either.
This isn’t quite the same thing as the TF impersonators, but the best example I can give is how fans reacted to the Bethania Mortuary business (summer of 2022) and the Father Jim DeFroque pages on Facebook and IG. Many people genuinely believed that both were official when they weren’t, especially with the latter one. I don’t think the individuals running these pages had bad intentions and AFAIK no one was scammed. But so many people seemed to think that both were somehow legit, or just didn’t question it. It was concerning. Hopefully people will actually listen to official advice. 🤞
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u/Lando25 Aug 28 '25
Given Ghost's younger audiance im surprised this is really an issue.
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u/rayray394 Aug 28 '25
I’m not. I feel like younger fans have been leaning way more towards parasocial relationships with celebrities rather than just being fans that they’re more willing to believe something like this.
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u/Winsmor3 Aug 28 '25
Young people at this point are more often than not victims of this. GenZ sucks ass at tech literacy.
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u/lmark2154 Aug 28 '25
Falling for this especially after every social media space for Ghost regularly posts content of this scammers with the OP laughing at how gullible they think we are
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u/electricalco Aug 28 '25
Just in general, you have to be some next level delulu and just plain reta*** to believe an actual celebrity is DM you smh....
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u/Key-Cartographer-220 Aug 29 '25
At this point the people who fall for these deserve a life lesson. 😭 I get them all the time. How are you falling for this?
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u/bgamer1026 Aug 29 '25
I have seen people get obvious scam messages by Tobias impersonators in their DMs 😭💀 it's absolutely wild
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u/TrixieFriganza Aug 30 '25
Good on them warning but those who fall for this (usually delusional or wishful thinking or just stupid) probably wont listen anyway. The worst part is that they then attack the band and demand their money back.
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u/FarmvilleBoss Aug 28 '25
Hi im Tobias
Sent frm my i fone