Has anyone been "catfish"'d?

[xCompackx]

So apparently I'm behind the times and have only recently learned about this Catfish movie/show. Has something like that ever happened to someone? I don't know why, but I have a really hard time believing that someone could convincingly fake being someone for long enough to end up in a relationship.

[Deleted]

There was a "girl" I talked to in a chat room that sent me photos of herself. They looked wayyyy too good, so I didn't buy it, and, years later, I figured out they were of a soft core model (the particular photos were PG). To this day, I wonder what exactly the person wanted, as they didn't ask for photos or money or anything like that.

[Bone Daddy]

I met my ex after talking to her for a long time online. I think we both thought we were being catfished, but we ended up dating for 4 years

[JIMBOB]

Feb 10, 2013 0:40:41 GMT -5 @irontyger said:

There was a "girl" I talked to in a chat room that sent me photos of herself. They looked wayyyy too good, so I didn't buy it, and, years later, I figured out they were of a soft core model (the particular photos were PG). To this day, I wonder what exactly the person wanted, as they didn't ask for photos or money or anything like that.

Add me to the club. In the past couple of months I talked to what I thought was a girl. When things didn't sound right about them I stopped talking to them. Wasn't till afterwards I did some detective work and found out the same thing.

[Deleted]

Feb 10, 2013 1:34:29 GMT -5 JIMBOB said:

Feb 10, 2013 0:40:41 GMT -5 @irontyger said:

There was a "girl" I talked to in a chat room that sent me photos of herself. They looked wayyyy too good, so I didn't buy it, and, years later, I figured out they were of a soft core model (the particular photos were PG). To this day, I wonder what exactly the person wanted, as they didn't ask for photos or money or anything like that.

Add me to the club. In the past couple of months I talked to what I thought was a girl. When things didn't sound right about them I stopped talking to them. Wasn't till afterwards I did some detective work and found out the same thing.

It's weird. Despite the cliche, just about everyone person I've met on-line was the gender that they said they were. This time, though, it was apparent that something was not on the up and up. I guess the idea is that person wanted to show pictures and claim to be someone but, in this case, they didn't want to meet, talk on the phone, want a picture of me, etc.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Nope. Everyone I've met on-line were who they said they were.

[Deleted]

I think I had a catfish situation.

Met on Myspace, talked on the phone, got along well, she said she wanted to meet but never responded when I tried, she wigged out a couple times and vanished from the internet (even made her # private) and then came back, commonly sent pics that slowly started to make less sense (she said she liked getting little tattoos and sent pics of them, but then "new" pics of her never had tattoos in them where she said they were) and then one day decided to tell me off via email because *I* suddenly was the one who never wanted to meet....

By that point, I was rather tired of the crap, didn't care about knowing the truth of the situation and just laughed the whole thing off.

....I think that the moment when I discovered that personal friendships held little value to me. Since then I've defriended actual good & close friends because of crap they've pulled.....and their absence doesn't phase me.


Wow. That conclusion got sour and slightly off-topic quick.




.....here's a picture of a small kitten wearing a knit hoodie to lighten things up.

[Bone Daddy]

Feb 10, 2013 9:17:00 GMT -5 @knapp said:

I think I had a catfish situation.

Met on Myspace, talked on the phone, got along well, she said she wanted to meet but never responded when I tried, she wigged out a couple times and vanished from the internet (even made her # private) and then came back, commonly sent pics that slowly started to make less sense (she said she liked getting little tattoos and sent pics of them, but then "new" pics of her never had tattoos in them where she said they were) and then one day decided to tell me off via email because *I* suddenly was the one who never wanted to meet....

By that point, I was rather tired of the crap, didn't care about knowing the truth of the situation and just laughed the whole thing off.

....I think that the moment when I discovered that personal friendships held little value to me. Since then I've defriended actual good & close friends because of crap they've pulled.....and their absence doesn't phase me.


Wow. That conclusion got sour and slightly off-topic quick.




.....here's a picture of a small kitten wearing a knit hoodie to lighten things up.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Can't say I have got into a relationship in that. I will say I chatted with someone who was trying to be a con artist as well faking about herself. It reminded me of one of those spam e-mails of some lost fortune that for some reason it coming to you from a foreign country. Only played by a girl and a chat.

first this person added me as a friend on FB. After sending me a message on there. Nothing weird just a hello trying get to know me thing. I was find whatever. Then she got on messager and keep trying to get me to cash a check for her. She claimed she's from Africa. That was when I knew she was full of it. Plus she did a bad job trying to sounds real. Pics not matches and made this claims she wanted to be with me and we be happy. But I would have to move to Africa and she do whatever I want (Think Coming to America and the bride to be from the king to marry Akeem.) Yeah she got blocked real fast.

[Square]

Does anyone have the link to the Catfish thread that happened on here. Some kid pretended to be a adult for years and ended up getting in a relationship with a lass on here, I think his name was KidJokah or something like that.

[rapidfire187]

I had a chick elaborately fake her death. She didn't count on my vigilance though. I somehow managed to get her mother's phone number with the VERY minimal info I had. I still think the mother telling her daughter "tell him you're a lyong bitch" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. The poor girl was mortified when her mom gave her the phone with me on it

["Gentleman" AJ Powell]

Feb 10, 2013 12:30:51 GMT -5 Square said:

Does anyone have the link to the Catfish thread that happened on here. Some kid pretended to be a adult for years and ended up getting in a relationship with a lass on here, I think his name was KidJokah or something like that.

Dude, I need to see this!

[El Pollo Guerrera]

DAMN YOU, TUIASOSOPO!!!

[ERON]

There was one a few years ago that I caught onto pretty quickly, mainly because she claimed to be from Austin but her English was atrocious. I played along for a little over a week until she claimed to have lost her purse while visiting China on business and needed me to wire her money for a plane ticket home.

Then there was one that I still can't tell if it was legit or not. She claimed to be serving in Afghanistan, and was very convincing. But she started getting way too into me for someone I never met in person, sending me nudes and talking about moving in with me as soon as her tour was up. Then she started getting all psycho PTSD on me, whining about how horrible it was over there, but then chastising me for trying to comfort her saying "How could you know what it's like?" And then I'd get pissed and tell her to leave me alone, and she'd threaten suicide, telling me that talking to me was the only thing keeping her sane. A couple of times, she called me at 3 or 4 in the morning asking me to talk her out of shooting herself. She also claimed to be calling me from the hospital with some sort of horrific injury a few times, only to be back on the front lines in record time a couple weeks later. After about six months of this, I'd finally had enough and told her to **** off. She left me alone for a couple weeks, and then called me to tell me that she got sent home early. About a week later, she said she had been diagnosed with leukemia and now only had months to live. After a few weeks of apologizing to me for how she acted while overseas and updating me on her treatment, she "miraculously" recovered and said she was saving up money to come visit me. I finally lied and told her that I had met someone else and was getting married soon. I haven't heard from her since.

[Deleted]

Before my wife and I got together, she had met some guy online and they were supposed to meet a few times but never did. It's really weird too, as they did skype, text, and call each other. They knew what the other looked like, but every time they were supposed to meet, he flaked out on her.

[nWoElite]

Boy, the stories I could tell from personal experience. I could write a book.

And theres a certain member here who was almost Catfish-d by a girl he'd been talking to. Long story short, I think he got it straight, but MAN he sent death threats along twitter something fierce.

[Mozenrath]

The Miss Kendrick attempt at doing that here was pretty funny in just how inept it was.

[Square]

Feb 10, 2013 13:13:50 GMT -5 "Gentleman" AJ Powell said:

Feb 10, 2013 12:30:51 GMT -5 Square said:

Does anyone have the link to the Catfish thread that happened on here. Some kid pretended to be a adult for years and ended up getting in a relationship with a lass on here, I think his name was KidJokah or something like that.

Dude, I need to see this!

I had a look for it, it doesn't seem to be around anymore.

[Deleted]

The first time I met a chick from online I was like wow she has a nice face and all of her pics are in the same angle. In other words I wasnt expecting a fat chick.

[Zombie Mod]

Feb 10, 2013 16:52:50 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

The Miss Kendrick attempt at doing that here was pretty funny in just how inept it was.

i'd forgotten about that, wasnt really worth remembering either.