Scott Clifton doesn’t have a twin role on The Bold and the Beautiful, but, sadly, many imposters are pretending to be him on social media. The actor is speaking out, warning his followers not to accept any imitators and not to be fooled by them either. The stakes are very high.
Scott Clifton: Important Message
“Well, I have to talk to you about something a bit grave which is not fun and not Instagram for,” Clifton began an Instagram reel. “But here we are. Some of you may recall a few months ago, I uploaded a post kind of like this, just me talking to the camera about this increasing imposter problem on social media, right?
“Where just any, you know, anonymous dick can…create a profile, slap my face on it, put my name on it, and then start [direct messaging] or otherwise engaging with my followers claiming to be me and you know, either catfishing them — that is to say like starting a phony romantic relationship with them or offering them some sort of business proposal, asking them for money,” the actor continues.
“[T]here are a million different ways that my fans, like my followers have been scammed and this is, this doesn’t just apply to me,” Clifton points out. “This is like a widespread thing…other actors…are experiencing this too.
It’s Only Getting Worse
“And more recently, I’ve been confronted with…maybe a dozen real-world examples of people who have…not just been lying to you and not just been trigged and I just had their feelings hurt but whose lives have been destroyed by this,” Clifton laments. “We’re talking about…giving away their life savings or, you know, buying plane tickets or leaving their spouse, or…paying, selling their property.”
Without mentioning Thorsten Kaye by name, Clifton referred to the story in which someone posing to be B&B’s Ridge contacted a woman who is being questioned over the poisoning of her mate. “Somebody pretended to be one of my co-stars and actually convinced a woman to attempt to murder her husband,” Clifton says. “This is all over the news, and he ended up in the hospital. Thankfully he’s okay. But [this] goes to show this is like getting scarier and scarier. This is a very real, very dangerous problem.”
Now that Clifton has alerted folks to the fact that there is a problem, he’d like to figure out how to solve it. And he’s getting help from his former TV wife. “Annika [Noelle, Hope] has drafted a beautiful letter to the powers that be at CBS,” Clifton says. “They assure us that they’re looking into it, but it’s a widespread difficult-to-contain problem and has the misfortune of intersecting with controversial issues like free speech and privacy. And these are big social media companies.
Scott Clifton: Finding A Way
“It’s not clear how we’re going to solve this,” sighs Clifton, who wants to assure his followers that he will never reach out to his fans asking them for financial rewards or to engage in a personal relationship. “I’m never gonna ask you for money,” he professes. “I’m never gonna…just randomly start a romantic relationship with you over a private message…Please know that and arm yourselves with both skepticism and an education on how to tell reality from fiction in social media.
“I’m doing everything I can but please, please protect yourselves and don’t let someone take advantage of you,” the actor adds. “Don’t let them trick you.”
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