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Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by bigdammyj: 4:39pm On May 11, 2022
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Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by omoyankee3: 4:39pm On May 11, 2022
Definitely a scammer
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by AfroKnight: 4:40pm On May 11, 2022
cheesy

I believe guys who do scams like this are secretly gay. Cos how the hell would I be comfortable disguising as a woman and chatting with a man toasting me? lipsrsealed Disgusting!

You for no tell the guy say im location don cast. Na mumu. Let him waste his time scoring own goals.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by bmdmix14: 4:40pm On May 11, 2022
Newdawn30:
So how do you ask where dey live?
where you @.


N the usa fellow will say their state of location n not country
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by Acidbath: 4:43pm On May 11, 2022
Males will comfortably seduce their fellow males with seductive words and deceive themselves that they are not gay. grin
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by emmy4real94(m):
cheesy
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by olaniyilukman(m): 4:48pm On May 11, 2022
toujurs:
So girls too do yahoo fraud. I thought it was only guys.
Those useless and lazy guys do recruit their futureless girlfriends to scam their clients and at the longrun if the client known as MAGA don't pay anymore, they will be left with no option than to use their girlfriend for ritual..
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by anonimi: 4:50pm On May 11, 2022
Newdawn30:
The rate of fake accounts on social media is alerming. All form of yahoo is bad but, it's really low when you still try to scam your country men and women .

Below is my catch with one that didn't realise his location was on and I could since the mileage between us, but, yet she insisted she was in the United States
Did you finally forgive and marry the olosho of the 2020 thread belowhuh

Newdawn30:
Everything was fine BTW us till late last year when she started changing. Our sex life was great till late last year, whenever I make a move to touch her she always say she was tired or not in the mood. It was strange cos she has a large appetite for sex. Then every weekend she hardly spend time with me, it either she had to for her a week training or she had to go home to see her parents which was odd . Even when I told her to stay she refused, it was always one excuse or the other.Then we began having fights even over the silliest things. I was away for a month and I came back early because of the lowdown. I decided to check her message, that's how I learnt that she had been having affairs with other men(3) Including married man she introduced to me as a friend. Same girl that hated ladies that sleep with married men was doing same.
I feel so broken cos I never expected such a thing From her . We are supposed to get married by 3rd quarter this year... I still have feelings for her cos she has been begging and saying she regrets her action begging me not to tell her mom. Her mom is the only person I can trust to knock some sense into her. I'm scared that if I forgive her she might do it again.
Nairalanders I need your advice. I had built my world around her
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by EyezofGod120: 4:55pm On May 11, 2022
post=112732574:
Online dating is almost like a box of chocolates ⁠You don't always know what you're going to get. While using dating apps is a wonderful way to get to know new people, you should still use caution when talking to a stranger on an app. Not everyone will have honest intentions, and sometimes, people may not be who they say they are.
Fake profile pictures are just the start, and these stories about being catfished prove that it's important to use your very best judgment.


Read these Three True Life stories from Real people.....

Many years ago I started talking to a guy called Zack. He lived in Pennsylvania. Nice lad. We spoke daily on MSN. We did this for a year or 2. We never bothered going on webcam with each other.

He told me about his family. His mother and sister had left him alone. He had never met his dad though had heard stories of him being a complete d*ck to his mum.

One day he came online and just didn't seem right, I was asking what was up, had something happened at school? with friends? etc. He told me he had to go on webcam. So He did.

So webcam turns on and theres this girl. She looked about 14. He was 16. Anyway. I had been talking to 'her' the whole time. Except i hadnt at the same time. Zack died a few years back. When he died (I have no idea what had happened to him) his little sister took on his personality. She had finally told her mum she has been speaking to me and her mum explained a few things to me. She believed she was zack a lot of the time. Spoke like she was him, told people she was him.

So the whole time i had been talking to a personality of a mentally ill girl. I was shocked and upset. I really enjoyed speaking with Zack, but to think he was never actually alive in the time i was talking to him.

Its a pretty strange one, I still struggle to get my head around it. i just wish I was a little older at the time so i could have understood more what was going on. This was about 10 years ago now so I can only piece together bits of the story.


***************************************


I started chatting with an army guy who was a peace keeper in DRC. We just started chatting casually, I was 21-22 when we started and he said he was 27.

I really don't remember what we spoke about. But I developed a huge crush on him. He said he loved me. I said it back. He said that he'd use his break to fly to see me. He represented himself as a 27 year old single guy. And he came across as having very high morals and being an absolute toughie.

I started to almost worship him and I placed him way above me. I one day told him (and short while before he was supposed to fly to see me) about my drunken 21 year party where I told me 2 best guy friends that I loved them.

He got all quiet and became jealous and something changed after that. We couldn't talk as usual. At this point we had never even spoken to each other. Everything was on chat. One day we were just having a normal conversation and he suddenly threw it in my face that I had gotten drunk... like that was supposed to make me feel bad.

What I didn't like was that he used a thing like that to try and hurt me, like he was waiting for the chance. Anyway, suddenly he was no longer in touch and I was completely devastated. I couldn't reach him. I thought he had told me his real name so I kept looking for his name online and found nothing. I tried over and over again and found nothing. I was broken hearted.

Then I finally had brain wave and googled his id and found that he had lied about his name. He was 40 something. He really was a peace keeper. I also found that he was known to catfish other people, he even created fake dating profiles as a woman. Someone posted a comment on one of his profiles revealing his real name and position. I eventually created a fake Facebook profile and added him as a friend. I found out he is divorced and has a young daughter and his statuses show that he's a total d*uchebag.

He really was a lieutenant colonel though and has been mentioned in a UN web page. I got over it all real fast.


****************************************


It's a bit embarrassing to admit I was catfished... But I was.

About 10-11 years ago, I started talking to a guy on Myspace. I'm pretty sure he messaged me first, and at first we just talked about tattoos and stuff since I had JUST got an apprenticeship at a shop. The guy said he knew my friend ... Let's call her "Amanda." So I talked to Amanda, and she said she knew the guy and they grew up together and what not. Anyway, guy and I keep 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.

This was before the show Catfish... And what do ya know? Guy doesn't show up. He wouldn't answer his phone and I was waiting around like a jack*ss. Hours later, he calls, saying he is sorry. His phone died and he got lost and we'd try again another day. I stupidly ate up the b.s., forgave him, and agreed to meet him another time.

The next time, I brought Amanda and her girlfriend to meet this guy. Even though Amanda vouched for this guy, he didn't show up again. Again, I'm feeling like an idiot and I'm crying, so Amanda and her gf drive me home. Immediately I go online and "break up" with this dude I never met.

We still talked for 6 months after that, with me questioning if he was real... But after that, he was supposedly vacationing around Europe and I wasn't trying to pursue anything anymore. 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 on FB from a girl. She asked if I knew _____ (Myspace guy) and if I had ever met him. I told her no, I never met him. She messaged me back that Amanda told her I had met this guy and that she had a brief online relationship with the guy. Then, one night, this girl was staying at Amanda's house when she was sick and I guess her voice was hoarse. She said it sounded exactly like the guy she was talking to online. She confronted Amanda and Amanda came clean.

So, my "friend" of 10+ years catfished me while she had a gf. I always wondered why she was a little clingy for a friend and hated all my boyfriends. Now I know. I haven't confronted her yet, but I also haven't talked to her for a year. I feel like she most likely knows that I know now. It hurts that a good friend did that to me
so na me go read all this your epistle!?
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by ILoveDemMANNA: 4:57pm On May 11, 2022
EyezofGod120:
so na me go read all this your epistle!?
Shey dem MANNA shook ur head for dem comment?
Attention seeker tongue
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by LadyTara(f): 5:04pm On May 11, 2022
post=112732574:
Online dating is almost like a box of chocolates ⁠You don't always know what you're going to get. While using dating apps is a wonderful way to get to know new people, you should still use caution when talking to a stranger on an app. Not everyone will have honest intentions, and sometimes, people may not be who they say they are.
Fake profile pictures are just the start, and these stories about being catfished prove that it's important to use your very best judgment.


Read these Three True Life stories from Real people.....

Many years ago I started talking to a guy called Zack. He lived in Pennsylvania. Nice lad. We spoke daily on MSN. We did this for a year or 2. We never bothered going on webcam with each other.

He told me about his family. His mother and sister had left him alone. He had never met his dad though had heard stories of him being a complete d*ck to his mum.

One day he came online and just didn't seem right, I was asking what was up, had something happened at school? with friends? etc. He told me he had to go on webcam. So He did.

So webcam turns on and theres this girl. She looked about 14. He was 16. Anyway. I had been talking to 'her' the whole time. Except i hadnt at the same time. Zack died a few years back. When he died (I have no idea what had happened to him) his little sister took on his personality. She had finally told her mum she has been speaking to me and her mum explained a few things to me. She believed she was zack a lot of the time. Spoke like she was him, told people she was him.

So the whole time i had been talking to a personality of a mentally ill girl. I was shocked and upset. I really enjoyed speaking with Zack, but to think he was never actually alive in the time i was talking to him.

Its a pretty strange one, I still struggle to get my head around it. i just wish I was a little older at the time so i could have understood more what was going on. This was about 10 years ago now so I can only piece together bits of the story.


***************************************


I started chatting with an army guy who was a peace keeper in DRC. We just started chatting casually, I was 21-22 when we started and he said he was 27.

I really don't remember what we spoke about. But I developed a huge crush on him. He said he loved me. I said it back. He said that he'd use his break to fly to see me. He represented himself as a 27 year old single guy. And he came across as having very high morals and being an absolute toughie.

I started to almost worship him and I placed him way above me. I one day told him (and short while before he was supposed to fly to see me) about my drunken 21 year party where I told me 2 best guy friends that I loved them.

He got all quiet and became jealous and something changed after that. We couldn't talk as usual. At this point we had never even spoken to each other. Everything was on chat. One day we were just having a normal conversation and he suddenly threw it in my face that I had gotten drunk... like that was supposed to make me feel bad.

What I didn't like was that he used a thing like that to try and hurt me, like he was waiting for the chance. Anyway, suddenly he was no longer in touch and I was completely devastated. I couldn't reach him. I thought he had told me his real name so I kept looking for his name online and found nothing. I tried over and over again and found nothing. I was broken hearted.

Then I finally had brain wave and googled his id and found that he had lied about his name. He was 40 something. He really was a peace keeper. I also found that he was known to catfish other people, he even created fake dating profiles as a woman. Someone posted a comment on one of his profiles revealing his real name and position. I eventually created a fake Facebook profile and added him as a friend. I found out he is divorced and has a young daughter and his statuses show that he's a total d*uchebag.

He really was a lieutenant colonel though and has been mentioned in a UN web page. I got over it all real fast.


****************************************


It's a bit embarrassing to admit I was catfished... But I was.

About 10-11 years ago, I started talking to a guy on Myspace. I'm pretty sure he messaged me first, and at first we just talked about tattoos and stuff since I had JUST got an apprenticeship at a shop. The guy said he knew my friend ... Let's call her "Amanda." So I talked to Amanda, and she said she knew the guy and they grew up together and what not. Anyway, guy and I keep 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.

This was before the show Catfish... And what do ya know? Guy doesn't show up. He wouldn't answer his phone and I was waiting around like a jack*ss. Hours later, he calls, saying he is sorry. His phone died and he got lost and we'd try again another day. I stupidly ate up the b.s., forgave him, and agreed to meet him another time.

The next time, I brought Amanda and her girlfriend to meet this guy. Even though Amanda vouched for this guy, he didn't show up again. Again, I'm feeling like an idiot and I'm crying, so Amanda and her gf drive me home. Immediately I go online and "break up" with this dude I never met.

We still talked for 6 months after that, with me questioning if he was real... But after that, he was supposedly vacationing around Europe and I wasn't trying to pursue anything anymore. 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 on FB from a girl. She asked if I knew _____ (Myspace guy) and if I had ever met him. I told her no, I never met him. She messaged me back that Amanda told her I had met this guy and that she had a brief online relationship with the guy. Then, one night, this girl was staying at Amanda's house when she was sick and I guess her voice was hoarse. She said it sounded exactly like the guy she was talking to online. She confronted Amanda and Amanda came clean.

So, my "friend" of 10+ years catfished me while she had a gf. I always wondered why she was a little clingy for a friend and hated all my boyfriends. Now I know. I haven't confronted her yet, but I also haven't talked to her for a year. I feel like she most likely knows that I know now. It hurts that a good friend did that to me
The Zack story is creepy.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by phemmyfour: 5:22pm On May 11, 2022
MrBrownJay1:
someone in the US wouldnt answer "USA" to the question "where do you stay at?!"
he cannot even say US grin
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by vikstandon(m): 5:26pm On May 11, 2022
lilachiever:
I believe she'd have mentioned her city, not country.
Why you dey give that guy OT now... You have educated a Yahoo guy.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by Enumerator(m): 5:53pm On May 11, 2022
Let me help you with this tip, it will save you alot of stress, anytime you see oyinbo girl or guy as a profile on tinder, just believe say na yahko, you need not messaging them

Na our boys dem be

cheesy
Newdawn30:
The rate of fake accounts on social media is alerming. All form of yahoo is bad but, it's really low when you still try to scam your country men and women .

Below is my catch with one that didn't realise his location was on and I could since the mileage between us, but, yet she insisted she was in the United States
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by Enumerator(m): 5:54pm On May 11, 2022
You not a real nigga

Na one boy lik you put up the picture there
toujurs:
So girls too do yahoo fraud. I thought it was only guys.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by Enumerator(m): 5:56pm On May 11, 2022
cheesy
posty56:
please how many Nigeria girls wey u don see get nice shape like that. cheesy, most of them have saggy boobs and fufu Belle , you should have known it was too good to be true
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by MikeMicheal(m): 6:03pm On May 11, 2022
emmy4real94:
OP 8 Miles is not in Nigeria. That is like 12k plus kilometers.
Go to school, you said NO.
Even after you used google, you still dont know how many KM equals 8 Miles.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by Nobody: 6:46pm On May 11, 2022
Tinder is not Nigerian dating app!
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by toujurs: 7:09pm On May 11, 2022
Enumerator:
You not a real nigga

Na one boy lik you put up the picture there
i watched a video on instagram, when a naija young girl perfectly sounded like a british lady, to a client her boyfriend wants to scam. Please check yabaleft page. Some girls helps their boyfriend to scam foreigners too. And the girl sound like a british lady very well.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by SURElee(f): 7:28pm On May 11, 2022
toujurs:
So girls too do yahoo fraud. I thought it was only guys.
Don't be fooled o! Girls do yahoo now. They pair with their bfs to swindle people.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by musicwriter(m): 7:42pm On May 11, 2022
Newdawn30:
The rate of fake accounts on social media is alerming. All form of yahoo is bad but, it's really low when you still try to scam your country men and women .

Below is my catch with one that didn't realise his location was on and I could since the mileage between us, but, yet she insisted she was in the United States
But why did you post a picture of an innocent girl online just like that? The girl you posted is a real person that has nothing to do with it!!

Meanwhile, with Tinder Gold subscription, you can select to appear to be at any location you want, even if you're not physically there. That was my experience when I used that package but I can't remember whether it shows real distance to other members.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by EyezofGod120: 7:51pm On May 11, 2022
ILoveDemMANNA:
Shey dem MANNA shook ur head for dem comment?
Attention seeker tongue
you use a whole day to form that epistle,,u jobless die
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by Bbbw: 8:04pm On May 11, 2022
Really
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by candygist: 8:12pm On May 11, 2022
toujurs:
So girls too do yahoo fraud. I thought it was only guys.
I guess you are 5 days old on this world ?
Na girls dey dominate Yahoo pass now.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by Goldbw122(m): 8:18pm On May 11, 2022
In the next year's, It will be very difficult to use internet to find soul mate, if you don't meet them physically just forget the relationship.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by RealEzee(m): 9:53pm On May 11, 2022
Happiboispot:
Don't believe anything you see online. Everyone is just desperate
Plus I'm a fashion designer due to the ASUU strike I'm currently searching for a place to work
yaba fit make sense for u or u fit write yomi casuals,ashluxe or ruff n tumble for internship n work ur way to d top .....i no know if wetin i yan u make sense sha
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by Worlddaddybongo: 11:17pm On May 11, 2022
At all oo
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by jimcaddy(m): 1:48am On May 12, 2022
We no know pass fraud in this country. Any bad criminal vice, Nigeria be champions. Others are inventing and making names for themselves. We are only interested in spending and spending and scamming to spend. Nigerians are consumers. We don't produce anything.
Re: My Experience With A Tinder Catfish by Kimiso(m): 6:44am On May 12, 2022
Unprofessional gee boy grin,...even the funny thing is the gee boy may be here now reading these and learning more better
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