After a long period of severe illness, from which she is almost recovered, my DD decided that she was in the right frame of mind to try dating so signed up to one of the popular dating apps frequented by a younger demographic. She connected with one guy right away, local to us, and he was very keen so they met up a few times and got on really well. Nothing intimate, just getting to know each other. Then one day, they arranged to meet and he literally disappeared off the face of the earth. Ghosted her and removed all traces of their conversations. She was upset but just put it down to him not having the maturity to tell her he wasn't interested.
After a few months offline, someone liked her on the same app, and she made sure to do ask all the right questions, and take things very slowly based on her other experience. They had lots in common and he asked if she wanted to go out and he'd plan the date. They live an hour and a half away from each other and he said he would drive to her.
The day before this much-anticipated date, he blocked her on multiple platforms right after she asked him to send a video picture and his surname before they met. There were small but inconsequential things that didn't add up, and could easily be explained away. But, looks like he's a catfish.
She's so hurt that it's happened again and all I want to do is contact all the places he referenced in his conversations and send them his picture so I can track him down and expose him. I know I'm going too far, by the way, that's just how I feel right now.
Is online dating just about players, liars and fakes?