Wary, yet hopeful

[pizzaeatingmonkey]

I feel about 15 saying this but...it's not me, I'm posting for a friend!

Man approached me on FaceBook, we got chatting, all his page is visible. He's divorced, has custody of his 10 year old daughter, lives across the pond, works in transportation on the waves. Lots of chatting back and forth.

(at this point Pizza asked her friend how she got approached by a stranger and she said that her profile picture had popped up on his page, and he'd liked the look of her. But don't you have to have mutual friends? Apparently he had said it was strange that that had happened).

Anyway, we'vd 'talked' about dislikes, expectations in a relationship both ways. Now being asked to consider a long distance ( across the pond) relationship and would I be up for that?
Apart from the obvious catfish warnings, and trying to find out more about him online, anything else I should consider, apart from the very obvious issues and scaremongering thoughts.
I'm 58 and wise, but possibly up for stupid...any thoughts welcome in the off chance I haven't already thought about it at 3am?
His daughter has a live in nanny as he's away 3 weeks at a time but wants to retire early for her sake.

I hope I never need to know but how do you do the reverse search thing? Friend has not returned call yet :( .

You can do it on a laptop on google or you can download the app.

I've just reverse searched a man that had messaged me on Pof with a few red flags and he's either using someone else's pic... or is massively gay going by the hashtags on his instagram (so, so many hashtags...)

Good tip! And glad your friend had a lucky escape too

never trust a man who over uses hashtags!

I learnt about the reverse search function from catfish lol!

I always use it, means my time isn't wasted! &! I search my own pics too lol

NOBODY deserves this kind of thing!

And the reason they seem to 'home in' on women who are fragile and have made bad choices....is that other women delete their friend requests upfront.

Agreed, I had someone add me a few weeks ago....no friends in common, not even in this country!

Deleted the request.

Most people, I won't bother adding unless I've met them face to face.

However! If a stranger wants to add me to OFFER me money then by all means, I won't say no!!