As long as blood courses through my veins.........i will never understand this.......cat fish!!!!!!!ing .....i mean...... how desperate ........ lonely ........or stupid ......... do you have to be........ to try and form a friendship with a fucking retard who will not meet you....... ask for money....... and be evasive .......there must ...be more fucking retards knuckle dragging .......on this planet than i expected ....... i mean how low of an opinion you must have or of yourself........ to think someone want to have a relationship in today 2025 ......... with cheap travel and all the excuses ......... i mean you have to be really fucking dumb bastard ....... of epic proportions to fall for it ........ its usually those filthy Nigerian......... thieving bastards...... who prey on desperate women ........ who cannot get a anyone in life ........because they hate who they are ,,......oh diddums !!!!!!! self love is always good
in the end you may save a shit load of cash by not for those filthy servile ignorant pigs .......dont hate the player !!!!!!<,,,,,,,stupidity will always come at a cost always !!!!!!.........
19 Catfish Stories That Will Either Rattle You To Your Core, Or Make You Pee Your Pants Laughing
For as long as there's been the Internet, there's been catfishing, but it never feels any less shocking when someone is caught in their lies.
Catfishing stories will always be fascinating character studies, and thanks to the folks in these two Reddit threads, we have some amazing IRL stories from both people who were catfished and people who catfished others. Buckle up, because things are about to get wild:
1."My 72-year-old great aunt has a profile on Plenty of Fish posing as a 72-year-old male so she can scope out her competition."
—u/shepdaddy
2."I recently found out that someone has been using my pictures to catfish people for over 10 years! A woman my age has been pretending to be me (a guy) and has been in an online relationship with two girls! She made over 15 Facebook profiles using my family and friends' pictures and at least eight Twitter accounts to make things seem more believable."
"She created a twin brother for 'me' and photoshopped me into pictures of myself to make it seem like there were two of me. The twin died at some point, and the original 'me' used to check in at a crematorium with a Facebook memory now and then. One of the girls thought something wasn't right and did some investigation. Eventually, she tracked me down and everything started to unravel. I spent four hours at the police station yesterday trying to describe all of this in a statement."
—u/r2bee2
3."About seven years ago, I catfished my then-boyfriend because I had a hunch he was cheating on me. I'd caught him chatting online with other women a couple of times already, sexting, begging for nudes, trying to get them to come over, etc. He cried and groveled each time I caught him — it was just chatting, he wasn't actually gonna do anything, he'll never do it again, blah blah blah. I didn't catch him again for a while, but I just had that feeling, you know? I should have just dumped him after the first offense, I know, but I was a lot more naive in my 20s. I made a fake profile with some random hot girl's pictures, named myself Ashley Adams, and made up a backstory that included cheerleading and nude modeling."
"The profile was comically fake, but I knew he'd fall for it because tits were involved. I friended him and waited for him to send the first chat. I didn't have to wait long, either. As soon as he popped online, he took the bait. 'Hey sexy, wanna chat?' Why yes, 'Ashley' would love to chat! He asked me for nudes, asked me where I lived, and was happy to hear that I only lived one town over and could be there in half an hour. I agreed to come over, he gave me his address, and told me to just come right in and jump on him. Oh, that motherfucker...I knew it.
I waited about 15 minutes before heading over to his apartment. I went right in like he requested, and I saw his expression change from excitement to 'oh shit' when he saw me walk in instead of Ashley. I could tell he was trying hard to come up with a reason why I couldn't stay, but I made myself right at home. I just sat there watching him squirm and glance nervously at the front door every time he heard a noise. He must have been terrified, expecting Ashley to show up any minute while his girlfriend was cuddled up right there next to him. I hung out for several hours just relishing in his discomfort, and then left him with blue balls after he realized Ashley wasn't gonna show. He tried to get frisky with me, but I said, 'Sorry, babe, I'm suddenly not feeling very well!' I dumped him a few days later. I gotta say, catfishing him was actually pretty fun."
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—u/Lydious
4."I (26-year-old-female) was on Tumblr one night and found a website similar to Omegle, where you could talk to random strangers over chat. I met 'Charlie' and we hit it off. We talked for around eight months via text, and it got fairly serious, but I would never commit because I couldn't verify his identity online ANYWHERE. Eventually, my friend helped me discover that Charlie was really a woman named Rachel who lived a few hours from me. After the shock and anger wore off, I jumped in my car to go meet her, and everything was great from there. We've been together for almost five years, one of which was long distance, and now we're engaged and getting married next fall. Up until meeting her, I had only ever dated men. I'm fairly open-minded, and I honestly think sexuality is a very gray area, so ending up with a woman wasn't a HUGE deal to me, just not something I expected. Now we have a house, a dog, and are planning our wedding."
—u/jbuckeye10
5."When I was 8 years old, I created a Facebook account as Oprah. I only knew who she was through Drake & Josh, so I figured she was just some inspirational woman. I would post cheesy quotes all day and play games. I ended up with thousands of followers, and people flooding my inbox with messages of love and admiration, a few poems, and even a request for my address for someone to send brownies to. Eventually, my mom found out and I was banned from using the computer until seventh grade."
—u/ohsopoor
6."I started talking to a guy in the days of Myspace. He said he knew my good friend Amanda, so I talked to her, and she said they grew up together and whatnot. The guy and I kept talking online, and of course, I developed feelings. We'd talk on the phone for hours, and finally, after a few weeks, we agreed to meet up. And what do ya know, the guy doesn't show up. Hours later, he called saying he was sorry, and that his phone died, so he got lost. He wanted to try meeting again another day."
"The next time, I brought Amanda and her girlfriend with me to meet this guy. Even though Amanda vouched for him, he didn't show up again. Amanda and her girlfriend drove me home, and I immediately went online and 'broke up' with this dude I never met. We still talked for six months after that, but I was questioning whether he was real. Supposedly, he was vacationing in Europe. I would still hang out with Amanda, and she would tell me that the guy called her and had some crazy stories about Amsterdam, or Paris, or wherever.
Well, about a year ago, I got a message from a girl asking if I knew the Myspace guy and if I had ever met him. I told her no. She messaged me back saying that she had a brief online relationship with the guy, and Amanda told her I'd met him. She then went on to tell me that one night, when she was hanging out with Amanda, Amanda was sick, and her voice was hoarse. The girl said Amanda sounded exactly like the guy she was talking to on the phone. She confronted Amanda, and Amanda came clean.
So, my 'friend' of 10+ years catfished me. I always wondered why she was a little clingy and hated all of my boyfriends. Now I know. It hurts that a good friend did that to me."
7."A couple of years ago, I was chatting with a very good-looking guy on a dating app. He would make plans with me, but then have to cancel because something would come up with his kid. One day, I saw a pic of him on Pinterest. Turns out the 'very good looking guy' lived in a different state with his wife, running a successful blog (hence the easy access to his pics). I confronted the guy on the app about it, and he said he'd joined to keep an eye on his ex-wife and found me in the process. He said his goal wasn't to catfish me, but he'd already put himself in this situation with the fake account. His loss."
—u/FearTheWeird
8."When I was 10, I went on Neopets and pretended to be a 25-year-old woman with three adopted kids. Am I the original catfish?"
9."I met someone through the Gossip Girl subreddit. We talked for a while and planned a weeklong trip to New York together. The week before the trip, they canceled, but I'd already dropped $400 on two tickets to Wicked on Broadway. Well, I went to New York for Wicked anyway. I found a fellow redditor who lived in NYC and gave her the second ticket for free. We saw the show, and she took me to an awesome restaurant around the corner from the Gershwin. Sure, I got catfished, but I made a new friend, ate good food, and saw Wicked on Broadway."
—u/Hellguin
10."I was catfished. Not in a romantic relationship, but in a friendship. Many years ago, when I was a teenager, I started talking to a guy named Zack online. We spoke daily on MSN Messenger for a year or two, but never bothered video chatting. He was 16 like me, told me about his family, how his mother and sister abandoned him, how he'd never met his dad, etc. One day, he came online and just didn't seem right."
"I asked him if he was OK, if something had happened at school, or with his friends. He told me he wanted to chat on webcam. When I turned the webcam on, I saw a 14-year-old girl. I had been talking to her the whole time. Zack died a few years before we started chatting, and when he died, his little sister took on his personality as a coping mechanism. She had finally told her mum she was speaking with me, and her mum got on to explain a few things. The sister believed she was Zack. She would talk like he did, introduce herself to people as Zack, etc. I was shocked and upset. I really enjoyed my chats with Zack, but to think he was never actually alive during the time I was talking to him is so strange. I still struggle to get my head around it."
—u/Arhia
11."I'm a girl, but for a while in online gaming, I pretended to be a man. I got tired of bullshit comments like, 'Oh yeah, girl, you 100% carried. Send nudes.' I unfriended people I was not close with, changed my name, and set up a voice changer, but my close friends knew it was me. One evening, we were playing, and my dog started to bark. The group went quiet for a moment before someone said, 'OK, either someone has a T. Rex in their room or that was a major voice changer fail.' I had to come clean."
—u/AddieBaddie
12."My mother-in-law had just gotten a computer, and she was losing her grip on reality as she aged. My husband and I didn’t have a computer yet, so we didn’t really know the dangers she faced. She met a man on the internet who convinced her he was her dead husband, and he started asking for money. She was on a fixed income, so she went to her son for the money he was asking for. He shut things down real quick, but the poor woman was sure we were keeping her husband from her for the rest of her days."
—u/ligamentary
13."One of my close friends in high school catfished someone. She’d been over at my house and borrowed my laptop. After she left, I went online and saw she’d left a Tumblr account logged in, but it clearly wasn’t for herself. After a quick scroll through her account, I found she was pretending to be a French guy (we’re American) and she was using one of our classmates' photos. I immediately told the rest of our friend group what was going on so we could try to figure out what to do. We ended up reading through some of her messages and learned she had a deep relationship with a girl who lived across the country."
"This girl knew NOTHING about who my friend really was. We felt awful. For weeks, we debated telling this girl the truth or even confronting our friend about what she was doing. In the end, we were worried about our friend’s mental health and didn’t want to rock the boat. So we did nothing. I kept an eye on the account for a while, and she deactivated it about a year later. Our friendship fell apart for other reasons not long after. Just a strange situation from start to finish."
14."I matched with a woman on OKCupid, and she was super cute. We started messaging, and I was stoked to meet her, but unfortunately, she was out of town for a couple of weeks for work. Fine, I wasn't in a rush. We started talking on the phone all the time. Texting. Voicemails. It was great. She would send me pics of her. All seemed normal."
"Christmas came and went, and we still hadn’t met. It had been about a month, and every excuse made just enough sense that I believed her. Traveling to visit family. Traveling for Christmas. Busy with work. Put it all together, and I look like a dumbass for believing her, but individually, all the excuses made sense. Finally, my friend started to question things. I dug into the pictures, and the file names were weird, like when you pull them off Facebook versus taking them on your phone. I confronted her, and she finally admitted that the pics were of her cousin. I wished her a happy life and moved on.
About four months later, I got an email from her 'sister' saying that the woman had passed away and that she regretted lying to me. The 'sister' said that the woman had really loved me and wished she could have been with me, and thought I’d want to know that she died. What. The. Actual. Fuck. I called her out and said, 'This is so-and-so, and you’re just trying to stay in contact with me. Don’t ever email me again.' Haven’t heard anything since.'
—u/mjolnir76
15."There was a guy who was friending girls in my high school and sending creepy DMs. A buddy of mine decided to make a fake profile to fuck with him. It took less than 24 hours for 'her' to get a friend request. We spent about 10 minutes chatting before the guy asked for a nip pic. We were going to call it off then, but I whipped out my nipple and took a pic (I'm a dude, and a pretty hairy one at that). We sent the pic, and the dude started talking about how hot it was. We stopped after that, mostly because we were laughing too hard."
16."I got a friend request from some random girl I didn't know. I sent a message asking, 'Sorry, I don't think I know you. Have we met before?' She responded, saying something along the lines of 'No, I just think you're cute.' I was flattered, but didn't respond past that point and declined the request because I have a girlfriend. A couple of months later (I'm unsure how the subject came up), I mentioned to my girlfriend how this random girl added me a while back. She responded, 'Yeah, that was me,' then proceeded to log into the account to prove it. She was testing my loyalty."
—u/[deleted]
17."My first job out of college, I worked for an advertising/production company. Basically, if someone wrote a book, we would help them leverage that into a greater media presence. We might produce a TV show, a radio show, or anything like that. One of our clients was trying to create a sex advice show, and he wanted some out-there callers. In an effort to get real people to call in, my boss decided we should create accounts on various swinger websites. My boss didn’t want to be bothered getting people to call in. Since I was on the lowest rung, my boss gave me a bunch of scantily clad pictures of herself, and told me to pretend to be her on these websites to try to get people to call into our show."
—u/spilgrim16
18."I catfished people to get them to buy me Steam games. I have $600 worth of Steam games now."
—u/megavoir
19.And finally, "I discovered my friend was a catfish when he became someone else's catfish-ee. I used to go on online message boards when I was in high school, and became friends with a user who said he was a 21-year-old cop from LA. We became gamer friends and played a lot of multiplayer games together."
"A few years later, another user from the message board created an instant messenger account pretending to be a girl. They added a ton of people from the board, trying to troll them. For some reason, my friend fell for it and flirted pretty heavily with this 'girl' until the catfisher went back to the forum and spilled the beans. It was revealed that my friend, who should have been a now-25-year-old cop from LA, was actually a 20-year-old guy from Canada. He was only 16 when we first started chatting! I guess he was pretty embarrassed, because he went completely dark. He disappeared from the servers, never popped online, never logged back into the forums. I was fooled for a good four years, but honestly, I didn't care that much. He was a fun guy to play and chat with."
—u/[deleted]
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