Catfishing on MFP
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I just wrote a long, eloquent response that touched on deceit, anonymity, living in one's mom's basement, and the fact that this forum and the Fun & Games forum are filled with threads asking if you would date, kiss, kick out of bed, stay handcuffed to, or adopt a small farm animal with the person above in the thread, and then I deleted it.
At the end of the day, we exist in reality in a way we can't change quickly or at all based on what we've done in our lives until that point. This blank screen, well it used to be until I started typing, gives each of us a way to recreate ourselves virtually and immediately without question. When the life one leads is not one that the person can be grateful for and celebrate, it is awfully tempting to become that other version here.
So, fish on people if that's what you want to do, or find real friends here, but either way you'll come away with good stories...like the one that got away, or more appropriately, wouldn't go away. Or maybe the one that was "this big" but turned out to really be a minnow...probably more fishing analogies to make, but I haven't fished in years and obviously lost the language.
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rickswifey83 wrote: »CoffeeAndContour wrote: »Misty_1375 wrote: »CoffeeAndContour wrote: »Misty_1375 wrote: »Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »Actually just learned of and confirmed a catfish here the other day. Pretty sad.
I’m a full on catfish 😂
I knew it! You are wayyy to fine to be real.
Dang it! I’m busted. You know catfishing is truly awful when there’s a reality show about it.
I admit, it’s a guilty pleasure. And Nev is
I love Max
I watch for the pleasure of seeing him
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Breezybreeze7 wrote: »Avocado_AS5 wrote: »I work at a bank and one of our customers is obviously being catfished. His Facebook page shows he recently "got married" to some super hot chick with a generic name like Sarah Jones who lives out in California. He's been sending money to someone several times a month out of his account. Poor guy won't believe it's not real.
Is this even proper to share about a customer?
Obviously I would never share names of a customer or even where I work.
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Breezybreeze7 wrote: »Avocado_AS5 wrote: »I work at a bank and one of our customers is obviously being catfished. His Facebook page shows he recently "got married" to some super hot chick with a generic name like Sarah Jones who lives out in California. He's been sending money to someone several times a month out of his account. Poor guy won't believe it's not real.
Is this even proper to share about a customer?
Why did she share his personal details so anyone would know who he is? Jeez lighten up.1 -
Avocado_AS5 wrote: »I work at a bank and one of our customers is obviously being catfished. His Facebook page shows he recently "got married" to some super hot chick with a generic name like Sarah Jones who lives out in California. He's been sending money to someone several times a month out of his account. Poor guy won't believe it's not real.
You/the bank may need to call APS to look into this and check whether he needs help. Sounds like exploitation and he's not connecting the dots.1 -
Breezybreeze7 wrote: »Avocado_AS5 wrote: »I work at a bank and one of our customers is obviously being catfished. His Facebook page shows he recently "got married" to some super hot chick with a generic name like Sarah Jones who lives out in California. He's been sending money to someone several times a month out of his account. Poor guy won't believe it's not real.
Is this even proper to share about a customer?
Why did she share his personal details so anyone would know who he is? Jeez lighten up.
It’s a question, not a matter of lightening up. In many lines of work that I’ve been in, this could be a violation of patient privacy, esp. the mentioning of Facebook and such, noting that more than one person may know who this man may be, which could embarrass the patient.1 -
Breezybreeze7 wrote: »AmberGlitterSparkles wrote: »Breezybreeze7 wrote: »Avocado_AS5 wrote: »I work at a bank and one of our customers is obviously being catfished. His Facebook page shows he recently "got married" to some super hot chick with a generic name like Sarah Jones who lives out in California. He's been sending money to someone several times a month out of his account. Poor guy won't believe it's not real.
Is this even proper to share about a customer?
As long as she doesn’t give personal details I think it’s ok
Fair enough but what if the customer is on MFP too?
I think the embarrassment here will be nothing compared to what's coming his way.....
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Thanks guys, I have been binge watching catfish for two days thanks to this thread.1
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OMG is he the guy with the abs out and a baseball cap and sweatpants! From Utah? He added me. I told him I’m married, he said he was too. Then proceeded to ask me about my best features and size of my boobs!
I see he’s added lots of girls over the past hour too! I called him out on it and he called me
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leut_underpants wrote: »AmberGlitterSparkles wrote: »Thanks guys, I have been binge watching catfish for two days thanks to this thread.
Better than binge eating catfish
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Bridge_marie wrote: »I know who you’re talking about OP. I just ignore his requests. Thankfully the messages here are broken.
Speaking of, whatever happened to the lady who said her husband was cheating on her, and asked if someone here would catfish him for her? I wonder if she ever did it....
Ohhhh, take this to the noobs thread.0 -
0Clucks2Give wrote: »chelseanoah8876 wrote: »OMG is he the guy with the abs out and a baseball cap and sweatpants! From Utah? He added me. I told him I’m married, he said he was too. Then proceeded to ask me about my best features and size of my boobs!
I see he’s added lots of girls over the past hour too! I called him out on it and he called me
Rude
did you ever tell him your size?
asking for a friend.
I can’t remember you’ll have to ask my husband 😏
It’s definitely him though, he’s using the name burpeez_suuck
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Bridge_marie wrote: »mustacheU2Lift wrote: »Bridge_marie wrote: »I know who you’re talking about OP. I just ignore his requests. Thankfully the messages here are broken.
Speaking of, whatever happened to the lady who said her husband was cheating on her, and asked if someone here would catfish him for her? I wonder if she ever did it....
Ohhhh, take this to the noobs thread.
But this is the Catfish thread. Lol I don’t know what the Noobs thread is.
If we have a question about something that happened in the past...someone seems to remember.1 -
chelseanoah8876 wrote: »OMG is he the guy with the abs out and a baseball cap and sweatpants! From Utah? He added me. I told him I’m married, he said he was too. Then proceeded to ask me about my best features and size of my boobs!
I see he’s added lots of girls over the past hour too! I called him out on it and he called me
Rude
Lol, that’d be him. Those are his favorite questions and “I’m married” is his reason for having to close his account every night and open a new one the next day. 😂1 -
He finally got it! Another profile picture!
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skctilidie wrote: »chelseanoah8876 wrote: »OMG is he the guy with the abs out and a baseball cap and sweatpants! From Utah? He added me. I told him I’m married, he said he was too. Then proceeded to ask me about my best features and size of my boobs!
I see he’s added lots of girls over the past hour too! I called him out on it and he called me
Rude
Lol, that’d be him. Those are his favorite questions and “I’m married” is his reason for having to close his account every night and open a new one the next day. 😂
Yup he asks the same stupid questions over & over. He called me a “Jerk” for calling him out on his BS lol! God I hope none of the ladies on here ever fall for his lies. I’m dying to know what he actually looks like 😂1 -
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