Being Catfished :S

This topic was created in the Taurus forum by Angeleyes17 on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 and has 24 replies.
I was angry and embarrassed at first but now its like I cant believe I actually fell for it because this guy played it soo well and convicted everyone.

I don’t know if others remember I’ve been talking about this Taurus guy. Turns out hes a complete FAKE. He used someone elses pictures and life and used them on his facebook and instagram. He actually checked in and tagged people which made it look so convising and this has been going on for over a year with me.

Yesterday I had a follow request on instagram and it was the same image. I ended up thinking that was a fake profile. I sent this to the Taurus guy saying someone has taken your pictures. He replied back saying thanks and that he will look into getting him reported. Regardless of this I still accepted the follow. I saw the images and videos they he was completely legit. He had a facebook and instagram of his life. When I went back to the Taurus guy’s profile, he removed himself. My emotions were completely mixed.. with WTF!! How can this guy be so sad to go to all this trouble to make himself so real and for what!? I’m actually taking to the real guy and I still cant believe it. He’s got snap chat as well which does make me believe hes the real guy. Its still a shock to me but very gratfull that i didnt meet this guy for real.. I would have put myself in serious danger like that.

Have any of you guys come across fake profiles like this? Been emotionally lured into?
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Posted by xoxoRain
nope, never have been catfished. lol sorry u had to go thru that tho.....

Your lucky!! This social media thing is completely messed up
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Damnnnnn. Did he say anything to you? Give you an exploration at all?
I don't know what people try and accomplish out of fake pics.
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Explanation* my bad.
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Hey angel sorry you had to go through that. I haven't seen you around hope everything else is good..

Now that type of bullshit happens all the time. Especially online.. it happened to me and my co workers. So it's really messed up. And I hope you move on and find someone else who keeps it real at all times.

It is really messed up to trust people easily to becoming devastated because we opened up and got screwed... when this happens. Just accept it and keep calm and know he wasn't the one.


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Only thing coming close to catfish is men lying about their financial status apart from that they all were the real face and person. I'm so sorry that happened to you.
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People lie about the relationship status, kids status, height status, and age believe it. I screen alot because of experience like this.
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Posted by PancakeFace
Damnnnnn. Did he say anything to you? Give you an exploration at all?
I don't know what people try and accomplish out of fake pics.

He didn’t explain anything. After i saw the profile of the real guy it was very clear that the one I was talking to was a fake. I messaged him on the phone that has he sorted it, but no reply. and then i checked his profiles and he removed himself (clearly he was caught out). Later in the day i messaged him on whatsaap saying - "Extremely disappointed. but i'll give you some credit. you were very convincing. Fooled a lot of people. " He called me late night but i was asleep. Its just really sad how low people get.
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When I was like 16 I found out I was being catfished by a girl my age who pretended to be a guy for about 4 years? Throughout that time we became good friends. Ah myspace, interesting times. The real her turned out to be better anyway. She's still a wonderful person... just got too wrapped up and didn't know how to stop. If adults are doing this, that's very sad.

Back in middle school around 2007 I also knew these girls who set up a fake guy profile on myspace to get back at an ex-friend, it went as far as to faking a guy voice and leaving voice messages to the ex-friend's mother saying the girl was pregnant just to get her in trouble. Children can be so vicious omg ;-;


Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
People lie about the relationship status, kids status, height status, and age believe it. I screen alot because of experience like this.

People even do that in real life.
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Well mine and my coworkers happened on match.com, pof, and ok cupid, and perhaps what's app.
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Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
Hey angel sorry you had to go through that. I haven't seen you around hope everything else is good..

Now that type of bullshit happens all the time. Especially online.. it happened to me and my co workers. So it's really messed up. And I hope you move on and find someone else who keeps it real at all times.

It is really messed up to trust people easily to becoming devastated because we opened up and got screwed... when this happens. Just accept it and keep calm and know he wasn't the one.




I’m ok, I just didn’t expect this to happen to me. I’m normally good at clocking the fake people but this guy seemed to have played it really well. Most likely he made those other fake profile friends too that he interacted with to look more real. He had albums tagged pictures etc and checking in places which was very believable. This whole time I was coming on this site for advice on this guy and he was a complete fake. The real guy is actually from LA and I’ve been chatting to him lol.

I will move on from this I just cant understand what kind of life is it for this guy to act completely fake. What reasons can he/she have? Messing with peoples feelings?
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Yeah that actually happened to that lady Meri on sister wives. It was on yahoo.com last week.. and now your experience. Lol. See..
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HAHA damn high school drama kids..
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Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
Yeah that actually happened to that lady Meri on sister wives. It was on yahoo.com last week.. and now your experience. Lol. See..

Think i heard about that one but didnt read up about it tho.. lol
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Posted by BlackMamba
Posted by Angeleyes17
Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
Hey angel sorry you had to go through that. I haven't seen you around hope everything else is good..

Now that type of bullshit happens all the time. Especially online.. it happened to me and my co workers. So it's really messed up. And I hope you move on and find someone else who keeps it real at all times.

It is really messed up to trust people easily to becoming devastated because we opened up and got screwed... when this happens. Just accept it and keep calm and know he wasn't the one.




I’m ok, I just didn’t expect this to happen to me. I’m normally good at clocking the fake people but this guy seemed to have played it really well. Most likely he made those other fake profile friends too that he interacted with to look more real. He had albums tagged pictures etc and checking in places which was very believable. This whole time I was coming on this site for advice on this guy and he was a complete fake. The real guy is actually from LA and I’ve been chatting to him lol.

I will move on from this I just cant understand what kind of life is it for this guy to act completely fake. What reasons can he/she have? Messing with peoples feelings?


Why aren't you asking yourself questions like why are you seeking men on social media?
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What is wrong with seeking men on social media? If I were single, I would be meeting up with people all the time. It just seems like a really easy/convenient way to date nowadays. Everyone is on social media. Are we supposed to believe all of the stable/honest people are just not plugged in?
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Posted by Angeleyes17
Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
Hey angel sorry you had to go through that. I haven't seen you around hope everything else is good..

Now that type of bullshit happens all the time. Especially online.. it happened to me and my co workers. So it's really messed up. And I hope you move on and find someone else who keeps it real at all times.

It is really messed up to trust people easily to becoming devastated because we opened up and got screwed... when this happens. Just accept it and keep calm and know he wasn't the one.




I’m ok, I just didn’t expect this to happen to me. I’m normally good at clocking the fake people but this guy seemed to have played it really well. Most likely he made those other fake profile friends too that he interacted with to look more real. He had albums tagged pictures etc and checking in places which was very believable. This whole time I was coming on this site for advice on this guy and he was a complete fake. The real guy is actually from LA and I’ve been chatting to him lol.

I will move on from this I just cant understand what kind of life is it for this guy to act completely fake. What reasons can he/she have? Messing with peoples feelings?
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Why not just ask him directly. I'd be really interested to see what his explanation is.
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Hey Angel! Don't feel bad about it, because it happens to so many people. I'm pretty sure it happened to me once. A Taurus girl I spoke to on and off for 3 years just disappeared once. I knew something was wrong for a long time as the relationship never progressed. She wouldn't even tell me her last name. I think she sent me fake pics at the start and never thought our relationship would grow the way it did . I guess she got in too deep and couldn't get out and her only method was to cut me off. I don't see any other explanation for her disappearing and not being forthcoming with her information. Especially after admitting she wanted to get together. My guess is that it must spiral outta control. That they don't intend to catch feelings but they do.

At the time it happened a did a lot of thinking about it. Now I've concluded I'll never know. She was the one who wanted to swap pics initially and early on. I was happy to chat with her. But she never sent me another pic in 3years after that initial time. So it made me suspicious as hell. It's a shame because I didn't care what she looked like, I was in love with her personality. But she was very suspicious and illusive. There was always a wall there between us.

I hope you find your closure soon. It will happen. I got over this girl who was a hard one to get over.
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Just to brighten the OP's day...

This story had me in stitches:

The Trial for an Attempted Murder Reveals an Intricate Plot by the Victim to Get Himself Killed

Two British teens we'll call John and Mark met in an alleyway by a Manchester mall one day in 2003. By all accounts, the two friends were tighter than stone butt cheeks, which is why everyone was surprised when Mark stabbed the everloving shit out of John in a vicious murder attempt. Investigators couldn't make any sense of the incident, least of all John, who told police so many different stories about why his friend might have tried to kill him that it began to sound like a Hollywood pitch meeting.

The Plot Twist:

That's actually not too far from the truth. After being fed multiple different stories by John and spending months in the dark, prosecutors finally uncovered the monkey-jugglingly insane truth behind what happened: John had tricked Mark into trying to murder him by posing online as a middle-aged female spy in the British Secret Service, who promised Mark sex, a multimillion-dollar job, and the entire DVD set of James Bond Jr. if he could prove his willingness to kill for the organization by stabbing his friend John to death. And that's only a taste of the crazy. Not only had the 14-year-old John turned Mark's life into a Shyamalan spy thriller but he had been duping Mark for some time with other online aliases and looney-tunes schemes. Why? Because John was hopelessly in love with Mark.

"I'm telling you: when I'm with him, I just feel the L-word."
"Lunacy?"

Before getting Mark to stab him, John romanced him vicariously through a fake Internet girlfriend named Rachel, for whom Mark fell with the intensity of Manti Te'o. John then introduced himself to Mark as the nonexistent Rachel's brother, and the two became friends. As if that weren't crazy enough, John then pretended to be a psychotic stalker named Kevin, who threatened to murder John and Rachel (who, remember, is a person who does not exist) unless Mark performed sex acts in front of a webcam, which Mark did. Finally, realizing that Mark would never love him the way he loved John's pretend sister, John cooked up the spy story -- because if you can't make someone love you, tricking them into murdering you is apparently the next best thing.

Mark, who at this point was running uncontested in the "Most Gullible Human Being to Have Ever Existed" competition, didn't know about any of this until the evidence was presented in court and John admitted to it. Hopefully, someone thought to record his facial expression at the exact moment of John's confession.

For some inexplicable reason, the judge let John off the hook, although he banned the two teens from ever interacting with each other again and prohibited John from having unsupervised Internet access ... because he likely would've pretended to be Mark's long-lost cousin or something within a few weeks.
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Posted by TaurusLovesScorpio
Posted by Angeleyes17
Posted by FirstDecanTaurianWomen0428
Hey angel sorry you had to go through that. I haven't seen you around hope everything else is good..

Now that type of bullshit happens all the time. Especially online.. it happened to me and my co workers. So it's really messed up. And I hope you move on and find someone else who keeps it real at all times.

It is really messed up to trust people easily to becoming devastated because we opened up and got screwed... when this happens. Just accept it and keep calm and know he wasn't the one.




I’m ok, I just didn’t expect this to happen to me. I’m normally good at clocking the fake people but this guy seemed to have played it really well. Most likely he made those other fake profile friends too that he interacted with to look more real. He had albums tagged pictures etc and checking in places which was very believable. This whole time I was coming on this site for advice on this guy and he was a complete fake. The real guy is actually from LA and I’ve been chatting to him lol.

I will move on from this I just cant understand what kind of life is it for this guy to act completely fake. What reasons can he/she have? Messing with peoples feelings?

Why not just ask him directly. I'd be really interested to see what his explanation is.
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I’ve seen he’s read my message on whatsapp. I just don’t even want to know anymore to be honest. I noticed last night (doing my research like a Scorpio of course) he used the real guys friends pictures and made fake profiles at least 7, so he’s been tagging them showing he’s out and about with them on holidays and clubbing etc. and he’s even showing he’s having conversations with them.. I’m still in shock that how much effort this person put to do all this. Full of lies and bullshit. I'm more disapointed. I really thought he was genuine.
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Posted by PancakeFace
Hey Angel! Don't feel bad about it, because it happens to so many people. I'm pretty sure it happened to me once. A Taurus girl I spoke to on and off for 3 years just disappeared once. I knew something was wrong for a long time as the relationship never progressed. She wouldn't even tell me her last name. I think she sent me fake pics at the start and never thought our relationship would grow the way it did . I guess she got in too deep and couldn't get out and her only method was to cut me off. I don't see any other explanation for her disappearing and not being forthcoming with her information. Especially after admitting she wanted to get together. My guess is that it must spiral outta control. That they don't intend to catch feelings but they do.

At the time it happened a did a lot of thinking about it. Now I've concluded I'll never know. She was the one who wanted to swap pics initially and early on. I was happy to chat with her. But she never sent me another pic in 3years after that initial time. So it made me suspicious as hell. It's a shame because I didn't care what she looked like, I was in love with her personality. But she was very suspicious and illusive. There was always a wall there between us.

I hope you find your closure soon. It will happen. I got over this girl who was a hard one to get over.

Thank you for your kind words. Last night I had to release my anger and just cried myself to sleep. Feel slightly better now. I’ve spoken to the real guy and he actually seems like a nice guy I’m just surprised how he wasn’t too bothered when I told him about his pictures being used. Apparently he’s known of fake profiles using his images.

That’s how it feels. Its confusing to why they do all this? What are they going to get out of this? I really thought it would progress further into something more. Sad times
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Posted by Infinite8
Posted by Angeleyes17
I was angry and embarrassed at first but now its like I cant believe I actually fell for it because this guy played it soo well and convicted everyone.

I don’t know if others remember I’ve been talking about this Taurus guy. Turns out hes a complete FAKE. He used someone elses pictures and life and used them on his facebook and instagram. He actually checked in and tagged people which made it look so convising and this has been going on for over a year with me.

Yesterday I had a follow request on instagram and it was the same image. I ended up thinking that was a fake profile. I sent this to the Taurus guy saying someone has taken your pictures. He replied back saying thanks and that he will look into getting him reported. Regardless of this I still accepted the follow. I saw the images and videos they he was completely legit. He had a facebook and instagram of his life. When I went back to the Taurus guy’s profile, he removed himself. My emotions were completely mixed.. with WTF!! How can this guy be so sad to go to all this trouble to make himself so real and for what!? I’m actually taking to the real guy and I still cant believe it. He’s got snap chat as well which does make me believe hes the real guy. Its still a shock to me but very gratfull that i didnt meet this guy for real.. I would have put myself in serious danger like that.

Have any of you guys come across fake profiles like this? Been emotionally lured into?


This is crazy! What was his point in all this? So,he really wasn't a Taurus?

We're you emotionally invested?
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I know.. I keep questioning the same thing to myself.. I dont even know.. his DOB was on his profile. At first i wasnt but later yes because we used to message eachother. It felt real.. clearly not now!! lol
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That really stinks :/

I've witnessed people blatantly lying over the internet, but none that i was emotionally attached too- I'm sorry you had to go threw that Sad

+1 for skype video chat :p
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Posted by Skitty
That really stinks :/

I've witnessed people blatantly lying over the internet, but none that i was emotionally attached too- I'm sorry you had to go threw that Sad

+1 for skype video chat :p


Learnt my lession.. tip taken!! skype it is . hehe
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