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Brennan Elliott Asks Fans for Help as Scam Artists Try to Profit Off His Family’s Loss
As longtime Hallmark star Brennan Elliott and his family wade through deep grief following the death of his wife, Camilla Row, he’s also dealing with scam artists trying to profit off his loss.
Row died on March 22, 2025, after an eight-year battle with gastric cancer, leaving behind Elliott and their two children — Liam, 12, and Luna, 10. Elliott shared a heartbreaking Instagram post that day to share the sad news with his 76,000 followers. Two weeks later, on April 4, Elliott returned to his account to reveal how upset he was to learn that someone was posing as him on Facebook, where he does not have an account.
Looking somber in a baseball cap and hoodie, Elliott captioned his selfie by writing, “I wanted to post something and make it very clear! Anybody following or in any interaction on Facebook with me is dealing with an imposter!!! I do not have Facebook and never have. This POS person is acting as if he or she is me and trying to profit off of my families situation with my wife’s death.”
Facebook Has Over 30 Accounts Pretending to Be Brennan Elliott
Elliott ended his post by asking anyone who sees Facebook accounts posing as him to “report them asap.” Facebook lists over 30 fraudulent accounts claiming to be Elliott, including one with over 10,000 followers. Many of the accounts have lifted photos from Elliott’s Instagram account and fabricated writings about Row and his children, pretending to be him.
One fake post uploaded on April 7 featured a photo of Elliott and Row with a paragraph about her, written to sound like Elliott had penned it. Within two hours, nearly a thousand people had liked the post and written comments, thinking they were responding directly to the “His & Hers” star.
Hundreds of fans flooded Elliott’s post with words of support and shock, including one who wrote, “People make me sick pretending to be someone especially at this time if grief. Hope your family is doing well under the circumstances. Sending love & hugs. 💜💜💜”
Another commented, “This is just heartbreaking 💔 Brennan! Keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers!🙏🏻”
Elliott’s struggles with social media scams is not new; in early 2024, EntertainmentNOW reported that the actor had to shut down his account on X (formerly known as Twitter) due to hackers and temporarily make his Instagram private due to scammers. In 2025, his only active social media account is his Instagram account, which has a verified blue checkmark.
Facebook says it has 15,000 content reviewers trained to spot posts and accounts that violate its standards, but imposters posing as celebrities is an ongoing issue there and across social media. Some, including those purporting to belong to Hallmark stars, have convinced fooled fans into providing personal information and sending money.
In January, one such situation that made headlines involved a 53-year-old French woman who thought she was communicating with actor Brad Pitt. According to Variety, the fan was swindled out of $850,000.
Many Hallmark stars have addressed similar scams, noting that they will never reach out to fans asking for them to follow them, communicate with them or send money to them.
On March 15, “Hannah Swensen Mysteries” star Victor Webster posted on Instagram that he’d just “blocked about 50 fake accounts.”
“Those are ones that have my name in it,” he wrote. “But there are plenty of people pretending to be my publicist or manager or assistant etc. I can only do so much, people have to be savvy to this this day and age”
Dealing with a similar issue, frequent Hallmark actress Catherine Bell posted a guide to her official social media accounts and wrote, “Please watch out for scammers and fakes! There are dozens if not hundreds and many of them are sadly asking people to DM them or sending them to Links where they’re trying to take money and exchange for chatting with ‘me’ or a meet & greet.”
Like Elliott, she asked that her fans “block and report” any posts or accounts that are not from her verified accounts, urging them, “Please don’t be fooled! 🙏🏼”
