Random Craziest Borderline-Dangerous Catfish Stories (15 items)

• (#1) She Tried To Guilt-Trip Him After She Lied

  From Redditor /u/DwarfStacker:

  To start, I want to say... I am very active and try to eat healthy-ish, and being very active (hike, bike, climb or some other active outside thing almost everyday of the week) is very important to me.

  I met this girl on the Tinders or some site and she looked super cute - a little curvy in all the right ways, incredible skin, and these crazy green eyes. We chatted for a while and agreed to meet at a local bar.

  The girl who met me was not that girl. She was about 275 lbs, 5'5"-5'6" ish, horrible skin that look like she wiped her face off with the greasy bottom of a WacArnolds bag, and these sullen dark brown eyes. Clearly the pictures were of her to some degree because I could see her in the pictures.

  After we said our hello's and got a drink there was a long awkward silence. Nothing to talk about. We had talked about how she also enjoyed being active outside and everything, but I did not get that impression from our initial conversation. I decided to jump right in, and asked if she sometimes wore colored contacts, to which she replied no, she just liked the way it made her look.

  Some more less-than-subtle probing from me (I was annoyed that I clearly had been deceived onto a date), and she admitted she was a graphic designer, and quite talented with Photoshop. She basically Photoshopped herself into a 5'9", 165 lbs, green-eyed, fair-skinned bombshell.

  She admitted she had Photoshopped herself to get dates. I was dumbfounded. No, I probably would not have gone out with her if she had been real, but I know there are guys that would have, who maybe didn't care about the lifestyle things I care about. But the fact that she had intentionally deceived me made me despise her. She then had the audacity to claim that I was an assh*le because I never "gave her a real shot."
• (#2) She Lied About Having A Deceased Twin

  From Redditor /u/RamsesThePigeon: 

  Back when AIM was all the rage, I started exchanging messages with a young woman. She described herself as being petite, attractive, and physically active, and the pictures that she sent seemed to confirm those claims. For a while, we discussed standard (boring) teenage topics... but eventually, our conversations took a turn for the bizarre.

  One evening as we were talking, she told me a story about how she and her twin sister had "switched boyfriends" in the middle of the night. They were caught, and neither boy was particularly pleased about the situation, so in order to make it up them, the girls agreed to have a foursome. The tale struck me as being more than a little bit odd, but I could see no reason for someone to lie about it, so I went right on believing.

  Things got stranger from there.

  As the months progressed, I was treated to a dramatic saga of epic proportions. First, the girl's twin sister was killed in a car crash that also ended her father's life. Not long after, her mother was killed in an accident (which was strongly implied as having been a suicide).

  The girl herself - being under eighteen - was sent to live with her uncle, who forced her to work at a [gentlemen's] club in order to pay the rent. (When I asked how she, a sixteen-year-old girl, was allowed to work there, she told me that "the fire marshal said it was okay.")

  That was about the time that the alarm bells in my head drowned out my sense of trust. I went back and reappraised everything that she had told me, and I noticed some rather glaring inconsistencies. After coming to terms with the fact that I'd been blatantly lied to for months, I started calling out every potential untruth that I spotted, and I gave the girl an ultimatum: unless she came clean about who she was, I would cut off contact with her entirely.

  She protested at first, going through such acts as being angry that I didn't believe her, and depressed because her "only real friend" had stopped trusting her word. Still, I stayed adamant, and eventually, she agreed to let me see her on webcam.

  It turned out that she was an impressively overweight girl who bore absolutely no resemblance to the pictures that she had sent me. Her stories - or so she claimed - were all invented to "keep me interested," because (according to her) I wouldn't have kept talking to her if I'd known who she really was.

  Truth be told, she was probably right. Still, I made an effort to keep conversing with her after that, and to learn who she really was... but I never felt like I could trust anything that she said, and eventually, we just stopped talking entirely.
• (#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.
• (#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.
• (#5) They Got Catfished On Snapchat, But It Wasn't All Bad

  From Redditor /u/lineman77: 

  A girl on Tinder, who was extremely attractive, found my Snapchat and started asking for nudes. Even went first with some teasing pictures. It wasn't difficult to figure out the girl in the pictures was not the girl sending me pictures.

  But, I went with it and the girl ended up being pretty good looking as well so I wasn't upset about it. Never went beyond Snapchat though.
• (#6) They Catfished Their Best Friend And Took It Too Far

  From Redditor /u/milesfortuneteller: 

  This is actually really horrible and I still feel guilty to this day. In grade eight, my best friend, Sara, and I decided to make a fake MSN profile and add another friend of ours, Tim. We called ourselves "Brett" and chatted with Tim day after day, claiming to be Sara's acquaintance from the neighboring town.

  We got him to confess a ton of things, like his crush on a friend of ours and that he found my mom hot. After a month we realized we went way too far and shut it down. He would talk to us about Brett and that he missed having a guy to chat with. We felt horrible and promised we'd never speak of it again.

  Sara ended up having her wedding in this neighboring town about five years later, and Tim told me he couldn't wait to finally meet Brett in person. I'm worried for the day karma comes for us.
• (#7) He Drove Across The State To Meet His Catfish

  From Redditor /u/Hoggiebearz: 

  Not me, but my older brother's best friend. He had been talking to this girl online for a really long time. He was planning on driving to Texas (we live in north Georgia) to visit her. When he told her that he was going to drive over to see her, she confessed that she was actually an overweight 43-year-old lady. He was 23 at the time. He doesn't like to talk about it...
• (#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.
• (#9) He Met A Trans Woman And Tried To Make It Work

  From Redditor /u/mahrroh:

  I had taken a year off of college to accrue some finances and figure out just what I really wanted to do with a degree/once I graduate. Earlier in that year I had lost a girlfriend of a year due to being cheated on.

  So I was sorta dating around, but not really looking for anything serious; not to mention all the time that was taken up with the courses I was taking at the community college (to finish some classes I wanted out of the way for uni) and work. With all of my friends away in different universities, my free time was generally spent with WoW [World of Warcraft], which had been around for less than a year at this point. Everyone was playing it, everyone was rather addicted.

  Now, I was heavily into World PvP at the time, as well as some light RP and during my time leveling, [I] met someone who was into RP, as well as PvP, a troll priest named Analiese. We ended up playing a lot together as she became my pocket healer.

  The gaming together turned into talking about personal life, to online friends and eventually more complex emotions formed. I found it odd to really be in an "internet" relationship, but decided what the hell. We traded pictures, and even talked on the phone.

  She was rather busy with school and the sort, talking about going through classes at a local college in order to apply to med school. It all seemed pretty damn legit at the time. Anyhow fast forward to a year and a half later, with me settled in to my own apartment, in a different town at a new school. I live a regular young college life with the caveat being that I have a girlfriend online.

  My friends know of her and all want to meet her. Ana tells me she got accepted to a well-known med school near me and of course I was ecstatic, wanting to know when she started and would be around.

  After a few days of questioning she tells me that... you guessed it... she is really a he. Told me about how it started off simple enough between the two of us, and how he desired to be a transgender [woman] so generally referred to himself as she. Said all the emotions were true and what she said was true with the exception of med school.

  I was pretty pissed, furious - and at first told my friends that she died. When they asked for details I stared blankly at them and never said a word. I was embarrassed and shocked that I was so fooled. Though I still loved the person at the time, and decided to give it a shot.

  We did end up meeting and she stayed with me for a few weeks. I tried, but in the end it didn't work out. Not because of her physical features, but because she was in a place that caused a lot of anger at herself, and was about to enter a very trans-formative state that, at the time, I was far too young and involved with my own life to be a part of.

  Lots of emotional outbursts which were directed at me regardless of deserving it. I am sure I was an ass at times also, being in a new type of relationship on top of the college stress. When we parted ways I made sure to give a lot of information on what she needed to do in order to start the physical process to outwardly live her true gender. Last I talked to her, she is living physically to her true gender, finished school, and seemed happy with life.

  I don't regret it happening at all to be honest, though I certainly wouldn't go through it all again.
• (#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...
• (#11) She Claimed To Be Rich And Sent Gifts To Validate The Lie

  From Redditor /u/CeeDiddy82: 

  A fairly attractive... girl started messaging me in a chat room on gay.com. I am lesbian, so the gay.com chat rooms for the women weren't really known for having bots.

  She comes on strong and actually shows a lot of interest in me even though I didn't really have much interest in her at first, since she was in Florida and I'm in Oklahoma.

  I actually start to really like her and think maybe we could really hit it off if we met. We started talking/texting pretty much 24/7.

  Then she tells me about how she can't date anyone locally because her dad is a marine engineer and builds multimillion dollar yachts for famous people.

  I don't really believe it at first, but she starts mailing me all these fairly expensive things like clothes, flowers, gift cards, etc. to "prove" it, even though I tell her I didn't really want them.

  The weird thing is she wouldn't tell me her last name and would be very weird about it, saying if I found it out, I could Google it and it'll pull up her dad's yacht business, and I could see how rich they really are, and she wanted to make sure that I really wanted to be with her, and wasn't just in it for the money. Even though she kept sending me gifts without me asking to "prove" her wealth.

  She also said she was a head hair stylist at Tony&Guy and made $700/day in tips.

  Anyway, one of the gifts she sent, the company sent a receipt slip that had her last name on it. I Googled it and nothing really pulled up. Even (name) Yachts, nothing. (Name) yachts Florida, nothing. Nothing at all came up for it.

  Things started to seem weird so I called the Tony&Guy she claimed she worked at, and asked if I could schedule with her. No one worked there with that name.

  I waited a couple days to tell her that her name came on the receipt.

  When I did she flipped the f*ck out and said I was crazy and that she was going to stop talking to me anyway because she has cancer, then hung up on me and disconnected the number within minutes.

  It was so weird. I don't know what the point of that catfish was, I'm the one who got a bunch of stuff, and I didn't even ask for any of it.

  Oh well, I still wear some of the stuff she got me lol
• (#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.
• (#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.
• (#14) A Mom Was Almost Conned Out Of Thousands Of Dollars

  From Redditor /u/Aikawa_Kizuna:

  Not me, but my mom...

  The guy said he worked for an oil drilling company and was off in the middle of the ocean on an oil platform. Then he told my mom that his daughter was in some dancing competition in another country, and she had fallen and broken her leg and he couldn't send her any money for the medical bills, and that he needed my mom to send thousands of dollars to some account, and that he would pay her back three times over when he came back into the country, and then he would basically take her away to paradise, and she would live in happiness forever.

  I told her that this was obviously bullsh*t and he was trying to rip her off. She wouldn't believe me, or any of our family or her friends, even though every single person we know told her the same thing. She insisted that we all wanted her to be unhappy, and that she was gonna abandon us all, and go live with him in paradise as soon as he came back into the country.

  The good news was, she didn't have a penny to give him, much less thousands of dollars. She tried to explain that to him, but he kept hounding her about it. So I took it upon myself to go to one of those websites where they try and catch these sorts of people, and after telling them the info, they basically confirm that this same guy has been using this same information to try and lure women for months, and that he is DEFINITELY a con artist. I tried to explain this to my mother, but she wouldn't listen.

  Then I myself went and sent him an anonymous and very threatening email, telling him that he had better confess to everything to every woman he is trying to rip off, or I would reveal all of his personal information to the police, and that I was an elite hacker and I knew every single thing about him (obviously, this was a bluff).

  He fell for it and I know that at least my mother received an email from him confessing everything. I didn't have to actually send any info to the police though, as the website I spoke of before said: that they already had all sorts of info on the guy and would take care of it.
• (#15) She Was Impersonated By The Preacher's Son

  From Redditor /u/goodforpinky: 

  I was catfished before the days of the internet. I'm a girl, but this boy in school did an uncanny impression of my voice (prepubescent). He used to call some of the other boys in school pretending to be me, having hour-long conversations. Guys would come up to me at school and ask me about something referencing a conversation I didn't have, and it took me a few to catch on.

  No idea why this kid did it. Bonus: his dad was a minister in our town.

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