A Cautionary Tale: Has anyone ever catfished you on GaG, too? (Page 3)
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Oh god. I chatted with the moonmice one and didn't suspect a thing!! Wow this just goes to show how weird and immoral the internet can be... I'm sorry this happened to you in such proportions. It must have been tough for you... Thanks for letting us know !
Mind as well add this link here too
www.girlsaskguys.com/.../q1207789-who-would-like-to-join-the-newest-club-on-gag-the-catfished-club
I have in fact been catfished, by the same person as you >:(
Awe I am sorry bearded man >.<
Don't worry RT you still have your Astros and Tony Romo.
Did she tell you the same freaky story? I feel gross now. D:
@MaskedSanity she told most of us the same freaky story, yeah. With minor variations and details of course :/
Or, well, I guess I should say "he".
@lumos
That is some elaborate shit s/he had to go though to make all of this bullshit up.
And over the span of several years. Pretty pathetic.
@lumos
That's what I don't get. Why put in so much effort for something so trivial. She spent years to gain the trust of random users on a uncommon site and tell them weird fucked up stories. She seemed highly intelligent, it just seems like such a waste.
Heeee. Heeeeeeee. It was a dude. And he probably has some major fetish for incest as well as being a pathological liar. So basically, it wouldn't surprise me if he gets off on telling people fucked up and fake incestuous stories. It wouldn't surprise me if the pictures are of someone who's related to him as well (sister, perhaps?) in order to magnify the incestuous aspect.
@lumos Wait so is it confirmed that she was a he? I thought their gender was unknown.
@Bandit74
https://imgur.com/a/TKH8J
Scroll down to the very last picture.
@lumos damn. Well if it's a guy I have a theory. Maybe the story "she" was telling about "wrestling" with her son was actually what happened when HE was younger. Maybe he's the son in that story. Or like you said, maybe he's just a pathological liar. I still don't get why on THIS site and why spend soo much time. Most of his accounts had a lot of xp. I'd think a pathological liar could have used their "abilities" for more beneficial pusuits.
@Bandit74 I don't think he was the son. I think he just had a fetish for incest and lying. Also, since you get quite a lot of benefits from being on here for a while (xper = gift cards), he basically got some money for spinning these lies around the site. So, he got to feed his fetish as well as make money off of it. Seems like a pretty good deal to me.
@lumos I doubt the gift cards had any value to him. It takes forever to get those $20 gift cards. He would have been better off getting a real job. lol
@Bandit74 well duh, I'm just saying that it could have been a contributing factor as to why he decided to stay here vs. stay on some other site that doesn't give out gift cards.
@lumos yeah I guess but that's kinda funny if the gift cards really were part of the motivation.
Were you actually really close with her/him?
@Bandit74 another part of why he chose this site must have been because we're a very small community, and it's easy to keep track on people and what they say/do as well as hand pick your "victims".
I was for a few months, but then he started telling me these stories and after that we started drifting apart.
@lumos Yeah, that's actually a very good point. I think that was probably the motivation more so than the amazon gift cards.
I only spoke to her a few times but she seemed cold and that she didn't like me very much. Guess I was lucky.
We should probably stop this conversation tho, rthomas is getting too many notifications.
What if he also did it for the views? There are a lot of people who are into that crap so it what if it was a clever advertisement for a p*rn site or whatever? Just throwing another idea...
Hope nobody finds out in not really a catbug o_o
but seriously, read that link on your page.
holy fuck! That literally gave me the creeps and was like watching/reading an episode of csi lol
great job!!
Thanks dude.
@commiedearest I was also fooled by this same person. This person said some very odd things that made me uncomfortable about their son and I just started limiting my conversations with them... And prob should've said something... :/ Makes me feel very foolish and more on guard definitely... Way more cautious!!
I always felt uncomfortable about @SandPlanet anyway. She even barged into one of my conversations and blocked me. Whenever I read her opinions, I felt a kind of a negative energy in it. So, its good that she deactivated. Less negativity on GaG lol!
i read the whole catfish thing and its crazy! i will never understand why people do stuff like that but whatever. I remember SaVes.. she always seemed so nice.. oh well! I remember seeing SandPlanet and MoonMice too.. weird.
i dont think I've ever been catfished though (i sure hope i havent!)
Thank you very much, for the information. I have to careful from now on, about who I follow here on GAG.
I remember when I first talked to SandPlanet (after I became active on GAG) and I had answered one of her questions (atheists/religious people and relationship) and I had told her about my experience with a very religious guy and she sounded understanding. So I always thought she was a nice person, even though that was the only time I talked to her. Your news came as a shock to me.
To answer your question, I have never been catfished. I hope that doesn't happen...
Thanks again, for the information (and the link). I appreciate the warning that you provided. :)
Wow... that sounds pretty intense. But just for some clarification, I didn't really follow the "A little over a week ago someone came to me and told me they were told a similar story. I still felt oddly loyal to my friend and said I hadn't heard of it" part... did you mean the storyteller told you and someone else, and that led you to ending the friendship out of disgust? Or?
But nope, I don't think I've really been catfished on here. Not unless you count this one girl that actually looked really cute in her pics, but when she sent me nudes, it must have been her best and/or older pic because it wasn't what I was expecting?
Someone messaged me a story told to them by my friend to ask if they were trolling. So I started asking around when I noticed the story was even weirder than the one I got and went from there.
Ohhh, so you got told a version that wasn't consistent with the version someone else got?
Well just playing the devil's advocate here, but what if you got more details of the story than someone else did? (or vice versa)
No there were things about the story that didn't add up entirely. Like timelines, situations, as I dug further I found out that this person had been doing this for a long long time.
Hmm, that's interesting. So I guess it was basically a story for attention or shock value then?
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I'm pretty sure I know who you're talking about, and I'm also pretty sure they're back already.
Ooh done like a BOSS!!
Totally agree with this.
holy shit!
DAYMN! Now that is some SHIT! I didn't know her, I've seen her posts here and there quite possibly said a comment but I didn't know her as well as most folks here but WOW as @Harakiri said definitely a pathological liar of the highest caliber! I talk a few peeps out here and my pic is ME in my US Army uniform.
I'm lucky enough to have never been catfished XD. Sorry what happened to you, I know who your referring, and their is a good chance they will return, as they have in the past.
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Yeah. I'm just trying to bring awareness because my understanding of it is that they always came back but with the same MO
Your question shocked the hell out of me reading it, I only messaged/talked to them once, and never expected anything like this to popup about them. I always assumed they created new accounts to avoid certain users who where harassing them. My guess is they do this for sexual gratification, and telling people helps to get them off. Luckily I'm not like that and have nothing to hide.
That's what I think, too.
no i was never catfished here, and i was never catfished. i think the only time i tried "catfishing" on a dating site was to see which type of girl would get the most male attention based on physical appearance. i only posted a picture and nothing else. results were interesting though not unexpected. :)
anyway, sorry to hear about your experience. that is super disturbing. i hope you find some peace.
and i have never*
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But seriously, i'm pretty surprised as to who it is. I dont think I've been catfished. As far as I know anyway
MH lol
Ohh, yes, I thought so right off the bat.. have not seen her in a week...
No, but I had a really bad experience a few years ago on a message board I frequented.
& damn... I had no idea at all that this shit was going on with her. I think yesterday someone mentioned that she was gone & I noticed her account was inactive & I was like "Hmm, what the hell happened to SandPlanet?" But then I read all of this shit. o_O
I'm sorry for your loss of a friend though.
Sorry Commie :(
People like that is why I'm so cautious on the internet. I've never been catfished but when I was younger I had a couple of Xbox Live accounts stolen.
Good job to you and those who helped you on catching her. :)
I know :/ oh PS I'm taking a survey what's your SSN?
I am not sure. There was a sweet girl I was talking to that always seemed to good to be real. She offered to send a picture and she looked like a model to me. I still have my doubts if she was trying to catfish me. All I wanted was an Internet friend and to be honest don't care who was typing. Even if it was a guy they were still fun to talk to.
What happened to her?
It sucks, doesn't it? :/
I haven't as far as I know. I can assure you I am grade A American beef. I am 100% real
Sorry that happened to you.
Glad there are still some real people out there. Lol at the American beef.
The best part to me is that sandplanet hated my guts. Wasn't she saves too?
@yadd... funny you say that she did not like me either. But I usually appreciate your common sense answers.
I guess we at not compatible with chicks who jerk of their sons
If you look at the link in my profile you'll probably be surprised how many times this person was on gag under diff names.
Just crazy. again I am sorry for all suckered
Here you are claiming to be beef when we can all obviously see that you are a turkey! I found another one!
I don't know whaT you are talking about
He pulled the ol' switcharoo. Don't tell me you're ALSO Sandra. I don't know how much more of this I can take.
I am a lot of things, but I can assure you a child molesting feminist is not one of them
Alberta beef is better than Texas Beef!!! Bring it! *^*
Battle of the Cow Towns!!!
PS. I'm from Alberta xD
Nothing ever like this. I've messaged with people before, where after some time, I can tell that they're not genuine and very likely are NOT the person who they say they are on GAG.
I don't want to insult you personally, but I cannot understand how people can be so naive and unaware of situations like this while online. Stories like this seem so common, and I just cannot understand how someone can be duped like this.
Yeah, lesson learned though. I mean she had all the backing. Her son had a Facebook that seemed legit (was also her)... none of her pictures showed up when reverse searched, etc. And she, on the surface, seemed so sane and accomplished. She was very very good and what she/he does. She could tell when people were backing off/suspicious so she would act more normal for a while and I would stop doubting her.
Understandable. We all make mistakes
Pretty sure yes.
And there was also one case where I believed I was and then thought maybe no and I still will never know.
Awe I am so sorry
Well in that case, they are/were a friend, and at some point i just accepted i liked talking to them, and... their life facts don't change that one way or another. its' just odd if they're lying because there's no need.
But in cases where people have fake sob stories, its like... wtf. Idk. Someone I know has suggested one user here was part of saves suite of characters, i didn't know them too well, its just... sad if they are, sad if they're not.
Who else do you think was part of SaVes club?
@QueenofSilentFoxes I don't know anything about it, so I'll let people who have actual suspicions share them. TBH, I don't even know enough to say why they were suspicious.
Oh I meant the character not club.