Golf powerhouse Haley Ostrom mentioned she was the sufferer of a terrifying incident when a person confirmed up at her residence on Friday night time.
In a video posted on her Instagram and TikTok, Ostrom, 30, explained that she was contacted by a membership she frequents final Monday and the membership mentioned there was a person there asking about her and asking the membership to contact her to inform her to name him.
Ostrom mentioned the person communicated with a pretend social media web page she thought belonged to her, and that the person despatched $50,000 to the particular person he thought was her.
“He left his identify, I did not acknowledge his identify and I really wrote it down, it is in all probability a follower, he simply left it,” Ostrom mentioned. “I dropped it and forgot about it till… that man confirmed up at my home. It was a really scary scenario for me and I’ve by no means had something like this occur to me earlier than.”
Ostrom – who has 927,000 followers on Instagram and 586,600 followers on TikTok – didn’t reveal the particular person’s identify or the identify of the membership.
“He was in a position to get my deal with by abusing his job and located all my info,” she mentioned. “It seems that he was messaging a pretend Haley Ostrom web page considering it was me and sending them $50,000. He was clearly offended when this man stopped texting him and so he discovered a strategy to get to me and got here to my residence.
“I used to be very scared and had even texted my mother and father throughout this interplay telling them to ship the cops to my home instantly. He made no threats and finally left of his personal accord. However as you possibly can think about, I do not know his intentions, and due to a few of the conditions that occurred in my previous with some followers, I used to be very skeptical and scared, and I wasn’t going to take any probabilities.
Ostrom went on to elucidate that he would by no means message anybody to request a observe on different social media pages or ask for cash. She additionally mentioned she would not have WhatsApp.
“There are tons of of pretend pages of mine and I report them day by day, however sadly many of those platforms do not do a very good job of eradicating them,” she mentioned. “I by no means wish to really feel intimidated or really feel like my privateness has been taken away ever once more. So I am taking the required precautions to verify I am even safer in my own residence. I actually recognize all my followers who respect my privateness and do not do something like this.
Ostrom added that “I will be posting one thing within the coming weeks to attempt to resolve this challenge, so keep tuned.”
Ostrom additionally despatched out a PSA to her followers letting them know the place to seek out her social media pages.
“Very scary scenario for me,” she captioned her publish. “As a reminder: I’ll NEVER ship you a message asking you to observe me on one other web page or platform. I’ll NEVER ask you for cash. all my accounts are linked on my web site (haileyostrom.com). Please @instagram @meta @tiktok @fb take away these pretend pages!”
Ostrom that’s dating skilled snowboarder Louie Vito posted a TikTok video whereas {golfing} at Camelback Golf Membership Ambiente in Scottsdale, Arizona on Sunday.
