I am being catfished right now!

[qualitychat]

I received a friend request on Facebook just now. This is definitely someone catfishing me. He comes from Austin, Texas but has pigeon English. He is a Marine Engineer living in Sweden. He does a very dangerous job. He is a nice looking man, he has sent me a photo. He tragically lost his wife 5 years ago due to medical negligence. Am I wrong in stringing him alone?

No! 😂😂🤣 Go for it! I had a long conversation last week with a man from hmrc saying I had to pay £5000 right now to avoid going to jail. I had loads of fun going to find my bank card, long pauses and telling him all of the numbers, inaudibly with one digit. Then saying I had a different account so I’d need a few more minutes to find it, etc.

This an has feeling for me already. This is the fastest relationship I have ever been in. I can feel the love 😍

No, you must. It’s a service to keep him busy!

We had someone call and say they found a rental car on the border of Mexico with blood, guns and drugs in it and it had been rented in my husbands name. Multiple “detectives” on the call. I think they claimed to be Texas rangers.

Plus a service to entertain us, too.

Sorry to break it to you but I'm pretty sure the same guy was messaging me last week.

LTB

I know Austin- would you like some local flavour to discuss with him?

Has he got a child aged about eight who needs a mother but who is happy at boarding school so will be no bother?

And did his late wife bequeath him a briefcase which has something valuable in it but he has to pay for the paperwork to get the briefcase sent to him/you?

How do people fall for it though? I've told him I have this fantastic job and earn a lot of money. I'm just waiting for the request for money. A great love has been missing in this life until now. It must be fate. I have never had anyone fall in love with me after five texts!

You realise that the person who sent the message could well have been trafficked and is being held as a modern slave in a scam centre right?

He needs your attention poor love. Keep him entertained :)

Yes Amerota, I was thinking that.

i enjoyed a nice chat with a man calling about the ‘car accident’ I had last year. I described ‘the accident’ in a lot of detail for him, and he was ever so kind about it all, I think he got suspicious and hung up after I told him that auntie Mary’s head had fallen right off and never been found 🤣

The longer you string him along the less time he has to find a vulnerable woman who might fall for his BS.

Plus it'll entertain us 🤪

mynameiscalypso or some guy from Africa looking to scam me more like.

Thats fantastic! 😂

OP keep us updated about the new love of your life, i need a laugh atm

When they asked me what I did for a job I used to say I worked at a jeweller's in Monaco.

And so we should all be catfished to fund their criminal enterprise??

That's a bigger problem and not one solved by op on here.

A friend of my mom’s actually wired $13K to someone like this recently. Said she was in some kind of fog. She even put him on the phone with the police later but nothing much they could do. The bank was suspicious but she told them it was to to buy furniture for her daughter for Christmas. (His idea)

What does he think about the changes in Rainey Street?
Has he ever been to Bangers?
Yeti is from Austin- what size is his hard cooler?
The bats fly over Lady bird lake in season (march - sept). Ask him about the bats in January
San Antonio is the military base- base camp for all the USA military in training and close to Austin. Ask him about San Antonio

Ooh! Am here for the duration 🍿
A live catfish thread! 🎉

YANBU, I did this once, it was hilarious.

I started telling him my husband wasn't paying me attention because he was obsessed with taxidermy and it went from there to things like this conversation:

Oh so it's someone who's been groomed from a young age by a gang like Black Axe where it's almost impossible to leave without retribution

Of course YANBU

Whatever you do don’t kill him. (That seemed to be the plot of the radio 4 play about catfishing today. I was only half listening.)

The conversation did get kind of steamy