I, a totally average guy, got superliked today for the first time ever. WOAH! Okc hit me with the notification and put her at the top of my stack. It passes my tests for a bot account (>15 questions, multiple photos with captions, etc). Even tho it still raises red flags (more on that later), i decide to play along.
Conversation is actually reasonable! Definitely a real person on the other end! Ok… she responds back quickly and is very interested! Ok… then she takes a break and i get my head on straight. Her name is very unique and uh did i mention shes obviously a bodybuilder? Ive been with a bodybuilder, but this girl is JACKED like Schwarzenegger would be jealous. I google her name + bodybuilder, and whaddya know, the #1 female bodybuilder in all of South Korea is in my city and is putzing around on OKC chatting with me! Wow, im so blessed 🙌
Lol ok but its clearly some weirdo catfishing as her. So im playing along. Im having fun with it cuz why not? Im not doing anything else with my life. Anyone else have any fun and not depressing catfish stories to share?
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> any fun and not depressing catfish stories
No
Uh, had a dude who quickly started going into talki g about bitcoin and financial investments and kept goin on about it despite my lack of investment in said topic. Was also talking about retiring at 35 yadayada and asked me why I wouldn’t want to do that (like bruh). I got a little iffy after that so assumed it was some fake going on. He also wrote he lived elsewhere but was often in town. I removed the match.
I forgot about it than I was matched with someone again waaaaay later. Turns up it’s the exact same guy and he initiates the bitcoin/investment convo pretty much straight away. Then I go “oh hold on, haven’t we talked before?!” Then he unmatches me 😅
Just sayin as a fairly attractive woman who dates men I have always had an over abundance of matches to where I have never felt the need to super like anyone. The super like from a woman who is clearly regularly pursued is absolutely a tell, nice catch.
I’ve only been Catfished by one person. Just used old photos. Conversation was lacking already. Started for dinner, split the check, and she was dumbfounded I didn’t want to continue talking after.
I mean, if you aren’t your photos but your personality is on point, you could probably keep my interest, but you can’t have just negatives.
Even when you catch them early, you feel silly for not seeing it sooner. To my knowledge only been catfished one time and scammer wanted bitcoin. We had some good conversations before bitcoin came up, but once it did I knew he was scamming. At first I thought it might be that actual guy but just trying to get money from dates and then when I realized how catfishy he was I felt super dumb. I still wonder what corner of the world and what hole this guy was living in… like who did I actually talk to? I didn’t fall for it obvs but it knocked me back from dating while I came to terms with how vulnerable I was and recast my mindset on dating again. Scammers are truly awful.
Yes I get the occasional catfish and enjoy trolling them.
In one of the more memorable conversations, we got off the app and began chatting on WhatsApp. Talked about about what we do for work and when he moved here from France. It was already a little sus so I was asking about his favorite local spots. Then:
Him: What are your usual hobbies, I like fitness, travel, golf, reading, cooking, swimming, skiing, and binary options bitcoin short term gain investment contracts, do you know about bitcoin?
Me: Lol never heard of it 😅
Me: I was just skiing last weekend. Which local resorts do you like?
Me: My other hobbies are rock climbing, cycling, backpacking, paddleboarding, sailing, going to see live music etc.
Him: You mean you haven’t heard of
Bitcoin?
Him: I think as long as I can ski places I like
Him: It’s cool, I think we can share our days with each other every day to get to know each other, you can ask me anything you want to know about me, two people get to know each other by asking each other more questions
Me: Yeah I agree, it’s important to ask questions and get to know each other. I prefer meeting up in person to do that and see if we have a connection.
Me: It seems like we’d have a lot to discuss, and then you can tell me all about Bitcoin haha
Him: But you’ve been skipping my questions. If you don’t really understand with me, we don’t need to waste time. I’m looking for a long-term relationship, not playing games.
Him: Good luck
Me: … is this about Bitcoin?! 😢
Him: It’s okay, but you don’t respect me and I don’t want to interact with you anymore.
Matched with a catfish, but they never tried getting anything from me. They did get defensive and insulted me when I asked if we could hop on a video call, tho. Lol
This is going to get much worse with generative AI: it’ll be easy to generate six pictures of someone and have a bot play them in a conversation until the mark in invested, then start dropping scam links or asking for money to come visit or something.
Chatted with someone for a few months I had met in a group online. She seemed cool as Hell, attractive in all of the photos I’d seen of her, reasonably intelligent, and into me. Eventually, make the 2 hour drive out to meet IRL. Get to her place, a little bigger than she gave the impression she was, okay… but also missing quite a few teeth, the remainder of which being on their way out… and she probably smoked 3 or 4 cigarettes in the 15 minutes I actually hung around before I suddenly had to excuse myself. I felt pretty naive and also really bad for ghosting, but come one. Who thinks they’re going to catfish their way into anything?
I had a guy catfish me, I realized it, found the real guy (the catfish had to either been a friend or classmate of the real guy because too much of the story actually checked out), let the real guy know and then told the catfish I knew and his gig was up because the real guy knows now, etc.
He got pissed off and put my phone number on Craigslist in the personal section of the big city I was living in. So many dick pics!! But 95% of the guys who had sent me a dick pic were actually really nice and reported the post for me, so it was taken down in like 10-15 minutes, so I only got like 100 dick pics. It was when I learned iPhones had a copy and paste function (this was in the early 2010s). After the post was down, I downloaded one of those random text apps and texted the catfish and told him that he won, I had to change my number, etc. and he never contacted me again (or posted my number again). Luckily he wasn’t a very smart catfish.
Yeah,after I posted some comments under posts on Ewan McGregor’s personal feed,guess what? And did you know you can order a personal meeting in your country with him? Just for 500$, thats pretty cheap ,as he would have to fly to CZ:)) Im still in contact with the scammer, its a guy from JAR, and hes really funny:))