Wolfgang Van Halen Messes with Instagram User Posing as Dad Eddie Van Halen

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Looks like someone’s posing as Eddie Van Halen, and his son (and Van Halen bassist) Wolfgang Van Halen is not okay with it.
After discovering the user @_eddievanhalen, Wolfgang noticed something was off with his dad’s Instagram handle. In fact, his dad’s handle doesn’t include an underscore, so when Wolfgang realized he was dealing with a fraud, he decided to confront the imposter.
Then things got weird.
Turns out the poser was a woman named Vanessa from Boston. And Vanessa was asking for $40,000. Wolfgang was not having it, shutting her down and warning others not to fall for the scam. Scroll through the entire conversation via screenshots by Wolfgang in the Instagram post below.
And then, like any good son would do, he went and visited his pops.