Tegan Quin (from Tegan and Sara) has been the victim of identity theft and an ongoing catfishing scam for over 15 years. | dG1fQm5pMVpFQ2VQNnM
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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, Tegan and Sarah!
00:04I loved being in a band with my twin sister.
00:08We started making music in the late 90s,
00:09and by the mid-2000s, we were playing Coachella,
00:11we did Jay Leno, Letterman.
00:13Out of my mind, out of my mind.
00:17Tegan and Sarah were incredibly good at building community
00:20through burgeoning social media.
00:22Being a fan of Tegan and Sarah was code for I'm queer.
00:25It felt absolutely our responsibility
00:27to take care of them.
00:29It was very personable with everybody.
00:31Tegan and Sarah were known as being very accessible.
00:34We messaged Tegan, and we got a response.
00:37It was very exciting.
00:38Tegan added me as a friend on Facebook.
00:40I had become friends with Tegan,
00:42and it had become a long-term friendship.
00:46At some point, she sent me a shared drive and a password.
00:50It felt off.
00:51So I reached out to her management
00:53and got a text that said, she has no idea who you are.
00:56And I said, well, then Tegan has a big problem.
00:59In the beginning, we thought it was just a leak of a demo,
01:02and then we realized this hacker had access
01:05to Tegan and Sarah's personal information.
01:07This whole new, really scary universe opened up.
01:10I said who?
01:11Fake Tegan knew where we all lived.
01:13Email addresses had been hacked.
01:15They shared passport scans
01:16and knew their mom's medical history.
01:19It introduced the idea that it's someone we know
01:22coming after our friends.
01:23Me and my girlfriend, that just made me question
01:26everyone around me.
01:27It was terrifying and scary.
01:28I was paranoid.
01:29The fear, of course, was the sort of physical safety.
01:32It got darker when we realized multiple fans
01:35had been catfished online
01:36and thought that they were talking to me.
01:40People came forward from all over the world
01:43saying they had been corresponding with Tegan for years.
01:46It escalated to a relationship.
01:47Yeah.
01:48Felt more sexual.
01:49Felt very real.
01:50It definitely left a mark on me.
01:52It turned my life upside down.
01:54We were extremely worried for our fans
01:56talking to this person.
01:57Then we got information that shook us again
02:00and our worlds exploded.
02:05We started to understand how little we really knew.
02:09Fake Tegan systematically destroyed my life.
02:14We kept this story a secret for a long time.