The Wild Tale of Gemma Barker’s Catfishing Con

Gemma Barker went beyond the typical catfish scheme to deceive her friends. Learn how her plan led to a shocking criminal conviction.

Gemma Barker’s story is like something out of a Netflix drama, but it’s all too real. This young woman from Surrey, England, didn’t just catfish her friends with one fake profile—she went all out, creating three different fake male personas. And get this: she didn’t just stick to online chats. She actually met up with her friends in person, dressed up as these made-up guys, complete with baggy clothes and fake facial hair.

Gemma Barker appears as one of her male personas in her catfishing scheme — **Gemma Barker dressed as boys so she could date young girls and also bombarded One Direction with tweets – Mirror Online**

Her friends thought they were dating these mysterious boys until things started to get weird. Then, the whole elaborate scheme unraveled. When the truth came out, Barker ended up with a criminal conviction for sexual assault and fraud. Talk about taking things too far!

Gemma Barker’s twisted tale is a reminder to always keep your guard up online—sometimes, what seems too good to be true is just someone playing a very dangerous game.

Twenty-one-year-old Gemma Barker is currently serving 30 months in prison for fraud and s*xual assault. Over the course of several months Gemma invented and impersonated three different boys, ‘Aaron’, ‘Luke’ and ‘Connor’ and under these three separate guises went on to seduce two teenage girls. With exclusive access, this True Stories film tells the extraordinary and chilling story through the personal accounts of Gemma’s victims.