Random Craziest Borderline-Dangerous Catfish Stories (15 items)

• (#6) They Catfished Their Best Friend And Took It Too Far

  From Redditor /u/milesfortuneteller: 

  This is actually really horrible and I still feel guilty to this day. In grade eight, my best friend, Sara, and I decided to make a fake MSN profile and add another friend of ours, Tim. We called ourselves "Brett" and chatted with Tim day after day, claiming to be Sara's acquaintance from the neighboring town.

  We got him to confess a ton of things, like his crush on a friend of ours and that he found my mom hot. After a month we realized we went way too far and shut it down. He would talk to us about Brett and that he missed having a guy to chat with. We felt horrible and promised we'd never speak of it again.

  Sara ended up having her wedding in this neighboring town about five years later, and Tim told me he couldn't wait to finally meet Brett in person. I'm worried for the day karma comes for us.
• (#7) He Drove Across The State To Meet His Catfish

  From Redditor /u/Hoggiebearz: 

  Not me, but my older brother's best friend. He had been talking to this girl online for a really long time. He was planning on driving to Texas (we live in north Georgia) to visit her. When he told her that he was going to drive over to see her, she confessed that she was actually an overweight 43-year-old lady. He was 23 at the time. He doesn't like to talk about it...
• (#10) He Harbored A Teenage Runaway

  From Redditor /u/5arge: 

  I was a junior in college and had been talking to this girl a few states away for weeks online. She claimed to be 19 (I was 20) and she was a cute redhead in the pics she sent me, so I chatted her up regularly even though she lived far away.

  At some point, she surprises me with her plan to take a bus out to my university, and spend the weekend hanging out and partying with me. When I picked her up at the bus stop, I barely recognized her. She sort of looked like the cute redhead I had pictures of, but waaaaaay younger, like she could be the daughter of the girl I had been talking to online.

  I played it cool, trying to be a gentleman, but quickly decided that spending the weekend partying with what appears to be a 14-16 year old would be a bad idea. I told her that there were no good parties on the docket, and took her home to my parents' house where I figured we could lay low until Sunday, when I could shuffle her back onto a bus and [get] rid of the jail bait.

  Well, late the next evening, while we were sitting on the living room floor watching a movie with my parents, the phone rings. I answered the phone to hear a crying woman pleading to know where her daughter was and if she is okay. That's when it hit me, I was harboring a freakin' teenage runaway. I got the girl on the phone with her mom, and started grabbing all of her stuff and putting in my car.

  Apparently her mom had found my phone number on their phone bill and traveled to my school looking for her daughter. I promised to meet her on campus with her daughter ASAP. Well, we didn't even make it out of the driveway before the police cars showed up. The cop looked at me, then pointed to the girl and said, "Is that her?" and I replied, "Yeah, take her home man," and that was it.

  Luckily for me, I think this girl may have had a history of running away from home because they didn't ask me a single question or anything, they just took the girl and left. Then my mom came out into the driveway asking why the cops were there. 

  I had some [explaining] to do. And then, when I returned to school, all of my roommates and neighbors told me that the campus police, local police, and state police had been scouring the campus for me and an underage runaway.

  I spent the next couple weeks explaining to everyone I knew how I got hoodwinked by an internet girl and that the police had the story wrong. It could have gone worse I suppose...
• (#14) A Mom Was Almost Conned Out Of Thousands Of Dollars

  From Redditor /u/Aikawa_Kizuna:

  Not me, but my mom...

  The guy said he worked for an oil drilling company and was off in the middle of the ocean on an oil platform. Then he told my mom that his daughter was in some dancing competition in another country, and she had fallen and broken her leg and he couldn't send her any money for the medical bills, and that he needed my mom to send thousands of dollars to some account, and that he would pay her back three times over when he came back into the country, and then he would basically take her away to paradise, and she would live in happiness forever.

  I told her that this was obviously bullsh*t and he was trying to rip her off. She wouldn't believe me, or any of our family or her friends, even though every single person we know told her the same thing. She insisted that we all wanted her to be unhappy, and that she was gonna abandon us all, and go live with him in paradise as soon as he came back into the country.

  The good news was, she didn't have a penny to give him, much less thousands of dollars. She tried to explain that to him, but he kept hounding her about it. So I took it upon myself to go to one of those websites where they try and catch these sorts of people, and after telling them the info, they basically confirm that this same guy has been using this same information to try and lure women for months, and that he is DEFINITELY a con artist. I tried to explain this to my mother, but she wouldn't listen.

  Then I myself went and sent him an anonymous and very threatening email, telling him that he had better confess to everything to every woman he is trying to rip off, or I would reveal all of his personal information to the police, and that I was an elite hacker and I knew every single thing about him (obviously, this was a bluff).

  He fell for it and I know that at least my mother received an email from him confessing everything. I didn't have to actually send any info to the police though, as the website I spoke of before said: that they already had all sorts of info on the guy and would take care of it.
• (#12) The Catfisher Sent Fake Pics And Nude Shots He Stole From Online

  From Redditor /u/charlottehm:

  Nothing serious because I caught it quickly, but a guy claimed he was a Marine and posted a bunch of photos that he captioned "Me in Afghanistan" and the like. They were all different sizes/crappy resolution.

  A quick reverse Google image search proved they were taken largely from articles written about military training exercises held in Nevada, and one even had the subject's name and rank, which wasn't even close to the name he'd given me.

  I called him on it and he felt the way to rectify it and prove he was real was to send me a bunch of d*ck pics. From there it got even better. The photos were of obviously different d*cks. They looked nothing alike and another reverse image search brought up dozens of gay porn sites. I called him on that, too, and he proceeded to threaten me for disrespecting the Marine Corps.

  It was actually kind of hilarious how terrible he was at it.
• (#3) An Old Man Wanted To Date A 13-Year-Old Girl

  From Redditor /u/Thegauloise: 

  When I was 18, I signed up for a dating site pretending to be a 15-year-old girl (the thought was just pranking a friend); the number of messages I got from creepy old dudes was amazing! (I'm a man BTW.) There was this one guy, he was about 54 years old and a construction worker, who was VERY graphic in his first message, so I got curious and started talking to him, he was such an assh*le.

  I told him I (my persona) lied about my age and I'm actually 13 years old, [but] he didn't mind. I was disgusted by this guy, but curious, so I kept it going and he wanted to meet with me. So I said sure let's meet, I would send him all over the country for a "date" with me, and I told him to buy all these ridiculous things like ballerina outfits, four dozen bananas (told him I wanted to have a banana milkshake party with some friends). I stopped doing this after like three or four days.

  To be perfectly honest this was a learning experience for me too, I didn't know how creepy and f*cked up guys could be on dating sites and in general, I have way more respect and empathy for women having to put up with this sh*t since then.

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