Random Craziest Borderline-Dangerous Catfish Stories (15 items)

• (#13) A Girl Pretended To Have A Brother To Catfish Someone In A Different Country

  From Redditor /u/chalupacabrariley: 

  I met this young man named "Shane" on the Neopets when I was 13. My best friend was 16 and so was "Shane." He lived in Holland and we would chat daily. I told my mom about our international friend, and she reminded me that "you never know who you're talking to on the Internet." I got freaked out and wouldn't talk to Shane for a couple of months, while my best friend would still talk to him daily.

  The strange thing was, Shane shared an email address with his sister "Rowena" and we had only ever seen one picture of "Shane." Whatever, not many people back then had digital cameras or video cameras.

  My best friend fell madly in love with Shane and, like I said, talk to him daily. They talked about meeting up, but something would always get in the way, even when my friend was in Holland with her family. We also found the same picture of Shane on Vampire Freaks, which was weird, because it was under a different name.

  After years of talking, like four freaking years, my best friend received on email from her lover. He told her there was something he needed to tell her and was just so embarrassed about, but he had been hiding something for quite some time, and to look for an email to her about it.

  She responded and waited for the email for months, it never came, she never heard from Shane again. She sent emails and instant messages to Shane, but he never responded again.

  She started digging and she found Shane's sister's - Rowena's - social media site. On it were all the photos and drawings Shane had been sending her for years claiming that they were his. Pictures of Shane's new shoes, of a drawing he had made for my best friend, all of Shane's favorite bands, etc. My best friend then realized he had not fallen in love with Shane, but a girl from Holland named Rowena.

  It's been four years since she's spoken to Shane, and the first year after they stopped talking, she sent Rowena an email letting her know that she knows that Shane never existed. I know deep down she still wants answers, but I'm pretty sure shell never get them.
• (#4) She Found Her Sister's Cheating Boyfriend

  From Redditor /u/Not_My_Usual_Acount: 

  I was single and on Tinder. I saw my sister's boyfriend on there and thought, what the f*ck is this? I made a fake profile to catfish him and talked to him for a bit - it was obviously him, and I got his number. Showed it to my sister and she broke up with him.
• (#8) She Began To Question Her Sexuality Because Of A Lying Gamer

  From Redditor /u/Cat_Recipes:

  I've seen this happen in WoW [World of Warcraft] as well. One of my guildmates, "A," told me that she has fallen in love with another girl in my guild, "B." It didn't make any sense to her because "A" also has a boyfriend, and has only dated guys in the past.

  "A" ended up confessing her love to "B," and that's where things got really strange. "B" had to admit to something: "B" was really a he.

  So "A" ended up having her own crisis because she wasn't sure anymore if she was gay, bi, or straight if she fell in love with a "girl," but isn't sure that counts because that "girl" ended up being a boy.
• (#10) He Harbored A Teenage Runaway

  From Redditor /u/5arge: 

  I was a junior in college and had been talking to this girl a few states away for weeks online. She claimed to be 19 (I was 20) and she was a cute redhead in the pics she sent me, so I chatted her up regularly even though she lived far away.

  At some point, she surprises me with her plan to take a bus out to my university, and spend the weekend hanging out and partying with me. When I picked her up at the bus stop, I barely recognized her. She sort of looked like the cute redhead I had pictures of, but waaaaaay younger, like she could be the daughter of the girl I had been talking to online.

  I played it cool, trying to be a gentleman, but quickly decided that spending the weekend partying with what appears to be a 14-16 year old would be a bad idea. I told her that there were no good parties on the docket, and took her home to my parents' house where I figured we could lay low until Sunday, when I could shuffle her back onto a bus and [get] rid of the jail bait.

  Well, late the next evening, while we were sitting on the living room floor watching a movie with my parents, the phone rings. I answered the phone to hear a crying woman pleading to know where her daughter was and if she is okay. That's when it hit me, I was harboring a freakin' teenage runaway. I got the girl on the phone with her mom, and started grabbing all of her stuff and putting in my car.

  Apparently her mom had found my phone number on their phone bill and traveled to my school looking for her daughter. I promised to meet her on campus with her daughter ASAP. Well, we didn't even make it out of the driveway before the police cars showed up. The cop looked at me, then pointed to the girl and said, "Is that her?" and I replied, "Yeah, take her home man," and that was it.

  Luckily for me, I think this girl may have had a history of running away from home because they didn't ask me a single question or anything, they just took the girl and left. Then my mom came out into the driveway asking why the cops were there. 

  I had some [explaining] to do. And then, when I returned to school, all of my roommates and neighbors told me that the campus police, local police, and state police had been scouring the campus for me and an underage runaway.

  I spent the next couple weeks explaining to everyone I knew how I got hoodwinked by an internet girl and that the police had the story wrong. It could have gone worse I suppose...
• (#3) An Old Man Wanted To Date A 13-Year-Old Girl

  From Redditor /u/Thegauloise: 

  When I was 18, I signed up for a dating site pretending to be a 15-year-old girl (the thought was just pranking a friend); the number of messages I got from creepy old dudes was amazing! (I'm a man BTW.) There was this one guy, he was about 54 years old and a construction worker, who was VERY graphic in his first message, so I got curious and started talking to him, he was such an assh*le.

  I told him I (my persona) lied about my age and I'm actually 13 years old, [but] he didn't mind. I was disgusted by this guy, but curious, so I kept it going and he wanted to meet with me. So I said sure let's meet, I would send him all over the country for a "date" with me, and I told him to buy all these ridiculous things like ballerina outfits, four dozen bananas (told him I wanted to have a banana milkshake party with some friends). I stopped doing this after like three or four days.

  To be perfectly honest this was a learning experience for me too, I didn't know how creepy and f*cked up guys could be on dating sites and in general, I have way more respect and empathy for women having to put up with this sh*t since then.
• (#12) The Catfisher Sent Fake Pics And Nude Shots He Stole From Online

  From Redditor /u/charlottehm:

  Nothing serious because I caught it quickly, but a guy claimed he was a Marine and posted a bunch of photos that he captioned "Me in Afghanistan" and the like. They were all different sizes/crappy resolution.

  A quick reverse Google image search proved they were taken largely from articles written about military training exercises held in Nevada, and one even had the subject's name and rank, which wasn't even close to the name he'd given me.

  I called him on it and he felt the way to rectify it and prove he was real was to send me a bunch of d*ck pics. From there it got even better. The photos were of obviously different d*cks. They looked nothing alike and another reverse image search brought up dozens of gay porn sites. I called him on that, too, and he proceeded to threaten me for disrespecting the Marine Corps.

  It was actually kind of hilarious how terrible he was at it.

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