Someone’s catfishing me pretending to be my boyfriend

[YourTealMaker]

I received a friend request on Snapchat, from search by someone with the same name as my boyfriend. I accepted as I found this strange, the Snapchat score is ‘8’. I asked if I knew them and they replied ‘yes’.

I haven’t received anything else back, but the username is the exact same as his Snapchat user name only the numbers have been changed to ‘24’.

we have a very quiet relationship, very rarely posted on social media. I find the whole situation quite bizarre, I know he had my previous ex partner on Snapchat a few months ago that’s really the only person I could think of who knows his Snapchat user name.

me and my boyfriend live in different city’s and have completely different groups of friends. Only my close friend and his close friend have only ever met, no exchanges of social media’s though.

any thoughts, please ? Or am I over reacting.

It's your ex. Block.

I have blocked it thanks

Not something I’d think twice about. Just block and ignore.

Just block and ignore, it might not even be your ex. It's probably a phishing scam they target loads of people on Facebook they clone the whole profile. They come do that on Snapchat because of people having usernames - so they change a letter or number but make it look like the same person.
By asking "do I know you" they know that you're suspicious already so they probably won't get any money out of you.

Why didn’t you just ask your boyfriend (I assume you do actually talk to him) if it was him & if not just block?

I’d string them along for a bit, just to see what they wanted.

I get a lot of scammy 'friend requests' on FB and would love to string one along until they ask for money and then go 'this is awkward, I'm having a crisis too and I was going to ask you for cash!'. Then wait for the tumbleweed, but honestly they're not worth the effort! I just ignore them.

Just ask your boyfriend about it?

if you’re both using Snapchat I’m assuming you’re quite young?

My Dads insta was copied and this imposter tried to friend request me. I reported and reported and eventually the account was deleted.

I'm too old skool for snap chat but maybe someone is using your boyfs pics and similar user names to scam ppl. Identity fraud is so common place now.

How could you be overreacting? You haven't done anything. If you don't like, you block. You don't need to know or understand the backstory.

How are they catfishing you?
They asked to be friends, you said yes. Then you asked “do I know you” and they said yes. That is all nothing else. So how is that catfishing?