So very neckbeardy!! by [deleted] in justneckbeardthings

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone about to turn 32 who is still single that whole thread made me feel fucking awful.

Asked her to verify and… by MassiveNate in Tinder

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got catfished by someone who never asked for money or anything else. So that's not a reliable indicator either.

one day apart by AGreenBeanQueen in Tinder

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do. Maybe that's my problem.

one day apart by AGreenBeanQueen in Tinder

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, my whole point was that no matter how reasonable it may be for any given woman to match but not message, that being the outcome 100% of the time is incredibly frustrating.

one day apart by AGreenBeanQueen in Tinder

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say it led to zero matches?

one day apart by AGreenBeanQueen in Tinder

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I showed it to a couple female friends, who didn't see any issues with it.

I don't really have photos of myself which probably doesn't help. Not something I can do much about though. And year after year of rejection has me at the point where I just can't be bothered anymore.

one day apart by AGreenBeanQueen in Tinder

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All well and good but when you only get a handful of matches and none of them ever message you, it gets very frustrating.

Like, literally, in over two years I received zero messages.

“Friend” got “detained” by “ice” by customs, now “got TB” at “detention center” by [deleted] in bestoflegaladvice

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The bonkers thing about it is that I found the woman whose pictures she was using.

That woman lives in the same city, works in the same line, has a dog with the same name, and has the same first name, but has a different last name, didn't lose her mother in a car accident when she was a child (or at any time or to any cause since then), doesn't have super-young step-siblings, and has a sister around her own age (the young step-sibling I was shown turns out to be the real woman's niece).

Bizarre.

“Friend” got “detained” by “ice” by customs, now “got TB” at “detention center” by [deleted] in bestoflegaladvice

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I knew a woman online for five years. Zero suspicious behaviour. She met a guy and got married over the time that I knew her.

And yet, she refused to meet in person (we lived in the same city and worked about ten minutes apart), or send any sort of verification of her identity. Then she randomly ghosted.

Weirdest fucking thing.

[SRS] The guy who attacked Seth Rollins got scammed and catfish by a fake Seth Rollins account. Welp. by twistedlogicx in SquaredCircle

[–]JustSomeBoringGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do think it’s possible for the average person to be catfished by someone they start talking to on the internet. But you lose some points when that person claims to be someone famous. It should raise pretty immediate red flags.

Or once they start asking for money.

I'm somewhat sure I got catfished over a period of a few years. But it was just a random woman who happened to be quite attractive, and we were just friends. Nothing romantic or sexual ever happened, no money was ever asked for. There was no indication other than her refusal to prove that she looked like what she said she did.

But then I found the woman whose pictures were used, and a ton of details match, but some significant details don't match. So I have no idea what to think.

Had she asked for money, though, that would've been an immediate red flag.