October 6, 2025
I'm a bit tired of talking about this now. This is then hopefully the 3rd, and final instalment of this what turned into series on, WOULD THE REAL EMMA WATSON PLEASE STAND UP? In our two previous essays on this subject, we established that there are a lot of imposters out there posing as Emma Watson. I suppose its an almost inevitable part of wealth and fame. People sucking off you. Up until recently I really hadn't thought much about the issue, mostly because my head is usually in the clouds trying to figure out the Mysteries of the Universe. Which has absolutely nothing to do with pop culture.
Late last month - September, I was scrolling through FB, and I chanced across my 3 Hollywood crushes, Sandra Bullock, Cote De Pablo, and Emma Watson. Disturbingly my feed was almost immediately flooded with stuff about them after hitting the like button. Oddly too, friend requests among it. Because I'm curious by nature, and admittedly was a bit bored at that moment, I accepted a friend request from each of the three. What was odd was when I went and looked at their profiles, the numbers. Simple common sense suggests that a celebrity with a Fb account is going to have tens of thousands of followers/friends. These had single digits, or 10-20 friends. Very low numbers which were explained as, "This is a new private account, my management doesn't know I have it, and my fans haven't found it yet". "My management is so controlling, and I wanted to control my publicity". This from the Sandra Bullock camp. Then came the hook, the story of her recent tragic loss of her husband, She is now apparently past his death, and is actively looking for a new husband, and father to her adopted children. If you want that esteemed position, you're going to pay for it, for a VIP card, which you'll need, will run you about $2,000.
As we've mentioned previously, the numbers are similar for everyone else, so those who are falling victim to these scammers are losing fair chunks of money. The Cote de Pablo camp has so far, asked for a step father for Tali, an invented T.V character introduced to us in the original series NCIS. Fees for her textbooks, which in California are free, and are covered in the enrolment fees for private schools. Too, in a near perfect AI generated video, young Tali tells you she's sad, and needs a prepaid card to activate her video game while calling you Daddy.. Also, whoever is claiming to be Cote, is playing the emotional looking for a husband romance game, just like with Emma's shower picture, I was sent this:
This photo while not revealing, shows her to be an attractive woman. That shade of green suits her. The only reason I'm showing this picture and not Emma's, is because this one is all over the place out there, and Emma's shower shot I haven't found a comparable image yet. That will likely be a lengthy process because I'm not going to sift through millions of photos to find it. She's a nice looking girl, but somehow that just seems creepy.
So here I guess is my bottom line. Imposters are losers. The celebrities of whom they imitate are, whoever they are. Some I think are likely decent people. Others are so full of themselves that its incredible that they don't shit their own heads out of their asses. I've been lucky enough to have enjoyed a unique relationship with a noted author, an artist, and the heir to Richard Wagner. That dude had issues. So why is there now an Emma essay 3? As previously stated, I spent a weekend trimming my social media presence to almost nothing. While doing so I took an Emma Watson imposter with me, and I put them on WhatsApp, there they were safely isolated from my FB friends list. And shouldn't be bothering anyone.
As previously related, over the course of a weekend, I willingly engaged with this series of individuals claiming to be Emma, and discovered she's got multiple personality disorder. The one in charge all the time is not the smart, sexy, quick witted Emma. Instead, there's not much to these individuals. Throughout much of the weekend the conversation was stilted, and was almost entirely focused on, prying dollars out of my pocket. First in the form of emotional blackmail, she's hurt herself and needed a visit to the emergency room at her local hospital. Proof of said injury being a picture that she had the foresight to take of a gnarly looking burn. I was also given a close up of what was clearly a cropped image of her tear streaked face.
These visuals were clearly designed to elicit a strong sympathetic response. So whoever is/was behind these images had strikes against them. I'm a trained observer, with over 4 million accident free miles. Obviously thinking about every little thing that I look at. The real problem of course started with asking a fan, for a hundred bucks for a Steam Card, so that she could pay the pharmacy for her meds, gauze, and tape. The far more realistic thing would have been to hand the phone over to the pharmacist, and the two of us working out what payment method would have worked.
I, of course, refused to be part of that, but I too had a morbid fascination to carry this on, this fucker was almost smart. I was having fun. So later, I checked on "Her".
There was then a lot of back and forth, I was a selfish ass, I didn't care about her. And to top it off, I owed her a thousand dollars for her stay in a private wing of her hospital. Needless to say there was more backing and forthing, and name calling, and the eventual dissolution of the "relationship". I was done with it at that point. Whoever the real Emma Watson is, there was no hint of a decent person in what had transpired to then. So this morning, I awaken to a simple "How Are you?" From that WhatsApp number (14029172578). Not really wanting to engage with whoever it is, I replied please leave me alone thingy thingy Watson. Your new nickname, because our every interaction has been about you obtaining a thing.
I didn't bother with the fools any further after that. I blocked the number and then was sad for a minute. I felt sorry for the real Emma Watson, knowing that nonsense like this is taking place in her name hourly, by the thousands of instances.
The Key Warning Signs of Celebrity Imposter Scams
While celebrities are on social media and do sometimes interact with fans online, it is best to approach any supposed celebrity interaction with caution. Listen to your gut, and be wary of sharing personal information or money. Do not be afraid to abandon any conversations that reveal red flags like:
Profiles with unusual punctuation or that spell the celebrity’s name wrong.
Accounts with low activity and/or a low follower count.
Soliciting money (even if it is for a charitable donation or other seemingly legitimate reason).
Asking for payment via wire transfer, bitcoin, gift card, or prepaid debit card.
Fake ‘verified’ check marks.
Their inability to meet you in person or communicate with you in real-time like a video call. Constant excuses as to why they can never meet.
Requests to perform intimate acts on camera or video webcam.
Asking for your personal information such as your full name, address, and phone number in order to send you ‘gifts’ or free merchandise.
The scammer tells the victim things that are at odds with publicly available information.
Love bombing with nonstop messages of adoration and affection – usually without having first taken any steps to get to know the victim on any level.










