She plays golf quite a bit. Much of her social media content is about golf, and she’s very well known and has a lot of fans. However, not everyone that comes up to her is a genuine fan.
Athletes and content creators often get hassled or even harassed in public, and Spiranac learned that the hard way.
She recently recounted a terrifying situation, where a disgruntled and ‘unhinged’ fan came up to her demaning money. The fan initially came up and asked for a picture, which is not uncommon. However, moments later, the man accused Spirinac of scamming him for $10,000 and began threatening Spiranac.
Recalling the incident, the golfer said:
As things turned out, the ex-golfer was the subject of an online scam, and the fan wanted to collect the money from her which he lost to the scam: Spiranac added:
“I have been dealing with these security issues for a while” - Paige Spiranac
With the proliferation of social media and the internet, there have been rising cases of scams where people lose money to fake profiles and numbers appearing to be that of a celebrity.
Paige Spiranac has been dealing with these issues for a while, especially recently. She said:
The people who get scammed in the name of Paige Spiranac demand money they got cheated of or try to follow up a ‘relationship’ they think they have have with the ex-golfer. She added:
Paige Spiranac also said that the most challenging part is that such fake accounts that scam people are anonymous and difficult to stop. Unfortunately, it seems these issues will persist for a while, and Spiranac will need to learn to tackle them.
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