Have you been CATFISHED?

No.

When I was 15 I met a guy who said he had just turned 19, was over 6' tall, had dark brown hair and blue eyes and 190 lbs... he got to my house (yes I was that naive at 15) and he was like 25, easily 300+ lbs and a mouth breather. I was polite for as long as I needed to be before my backup plan came to the door to check in. :laugh:

I got a friend request one facebook from my ex's former friend. He was a Marine and deployed. We chatted on facebook for about 2 weeks and he said he really liked me and asked me if we could go on a date when he got back. Chatted for a couple more days and then he asked me to MARRY him. Everything got kind of creepy at that point.

Oh, and his brother is a 26 year old Marine on his 3rd marriage. First wife married during bootcamp and was gone in a year. Two more since then at least..

Apparently their parents never told them that you should get to know someone before marrying them.

There's a lot of CATFISH on MFP...weight loss wise.

They log cooking, standing, food prep as exercise...

:ohwell:

Try working in a busy kitchen, not a home kitchen. You will be burning insane calories! Normally on a busy night I am almost dripping in sweat and out of breath.

hahah I love that show!
I've never been catfish, but I have a really close friend that had a really bad heartbreak.

Cant believe no one mentioned this yet....



Who wants to be my imaginary girlfriend? The only requirement is you have to shave your Adams Apple first. mmmmkayyy?

Read back. I claimed to be Manti's gf.

I'm a french model

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Bon Jour?

Who even watches MTV anymore? Crappy channel is crappy.

This

I have once when i was younger. He said he was 17 (i was 15) and from england. My mom found out and luckily had some friends at the police station and asked them to investigate. It ended up being a man in his middle 30's from kansas with a wife and children. CREEPY

It seems strange in the age of Skype and Facetime that someone could actually talk to and have a "relationship" with someone else for YEARS and never see them real time! That is a major red flag! I have never been "catfished" but I know people who have, one guy I know was talking to this girl for like 1.5 years, he went to visit her TWICE and she never showed up, after much drama and some snooping he found out that SHE was actually a transsexual he and s/he was also 10 years older. Needless to say it didn't end well.

Probably the most messed up story was my best friend's younger sister who was "seeing" a dude for like 2 months, only they never talked on the phone, Skyped, Facetimed, nothing. It was basically e-mails, online messages and texts. Come to find out he was actually the 13 year old older brother of the girl she would babysit and she only found out because he kept going on and on about his new g/f but wouldn't share any real details about her, so as a joke (probably a bad one in hindsight) she snooped through his phone when she was babysitting one day and he had gone to the bathroom and saw HER phone number and HER texts....that was really f'd up. She never babysat for the family again unfortunately. To this day I wonder what it means that 19 year old could carry on a "relationship" with a 13 year for 2 months...

I'm going to date myself with this story, but here it goes. In 1987 I was stationed at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi and had been working with a man over the phone for a couple of years. I liked him a lot and probably had a little crush on him. I had to go to San Antonio for a meeting he was hosting. The airline lost my luggage, so I borrowed a friend's name tag and headed out to the meeting. When I got there I recognized the man I was crushing on by his voice and was stunned to find that rather than a big manly guy he was a little skinny not-so-manly guy. He didn't recognize me as I was wearing someone else's name tag, so I had a bit of time to observe before I spoke and he started to figure out who I was.

Not necessarily an online thing, but similar issue.

Before I share my story, I want to make two things clear: I am married and intend to stay that way. And NOTHING happened with the guy in the story below.

Years ago, when I was a senior in high school, I ended up spending the night at the guy's house (he was a junior at the same high school) because of really bad, threatening weather. I didn't like him then, so there was NOTHING between us. It was a safety issue.

Flash forward 30 years, and out of the blue the guy contacts me and we begin playing catch up. He comes here to my city, and my husband and I BOTH meet him for dinner. While at dinner, he tells me he is not married -- hasn't been for years, has NO children, has even had a vasectomy so he couldn't have any more children. He is "lonely", wants to find the "love of his life" and confesses that he wanted to date me 30 years ago, and is STILL crushing on me.

A couple years ago, he was in a car accident and suffered a serious injury. He kept telling me that the lawsuit he had was about to settle, and he would be receiving 1.4 million dollars from it. He wanted me to dump my husband (whom he met!), and run off with him to Costa Rica where we would have our "happily ever after" living in the warm sun and drinking margaritas on the beach, blah blah blah. I never agreed to this, I never gave him any idea that I was romantically interested in him (never was, never will be), yet he continued to offer me all sorts of wonderful gifts, and trips, etc., once the lawsuit settled. I found him to be a bit too preoccupied with trying to get me into bed, and started ignoring his texts, emails, etc.

Long story short -- he is currently married (has been for the last 8 years), and has 5 children. The fact that this douche nozzle could deny his CHILDREN absolutely disgusts me! As for the lawsuit and the big settlement? 75,000, and the insurance company is fighting it all the way to court. How do I know all this? His wife called me, after she found his email to me. She told me he has done this before to a variety of women, and has about 3 mistresses currently. Apparently, he has BPD and has relapsed into some fantasy world where he believes he's God's gift to women. What a SICK f*k.

CLARIFICATION: I DID NOT reciprocate those weird emails.

catfish proves how desperate some people are for love

It happened to me on myspace. Photoshopped pictures, goo lighting, angles ect. She had the balls to be upset when I told her she was about 100 pounds heavier than her pictures and she covered up the scars on her face! She even blogged about me for months after.

I was pissed I spent like £500 on the trip up north to see her!

I met my husband 6 years ago online, he was better in person than online