Catfish scams

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With so many of you getting involved in online romances, did the possibility of the "Catfish scam" ever enter your minds?

http://gma.yahoo.com/manti-teo-hoax-exp ... ories.html

Even this big handsome football player fell for one. He doesn't exactly fit the stereotype of one who would feel the need to resort to the internet to find romance.

while i wont say such scams dont exist, the footballer is just a lie. More than likely he is gay in a very christian place, in a very christian team and is hidding it by having a "long distance relationship" and when he couldnt back it up he pretended to have been scammed.

Did anybody even watch this week's episode of "Catfish: The TV Show" on MTV?

here's the link: http://www.mtv.com/videos/catfish-the-t ... list.jhtml

I was hoping for this thread to be more about yaknow... catfish. I'm pretty hungry right now!

Go ahead. Hijack the thread.

Okay. This was filmed last Saturday in the DeForest Kelley Memorial Gymnasium, better known as He's Dead, Gym.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qYxHFtePpQ[/youtube]

I was featured in the local newspaper last Monday, and performed a great show last night. Today a TV reporter interviewed me TWICE (once when she recognized me on the street and set up her tripod on the sidewalk, then later she called and interviewed me again in my living room). We discussed autism, cats, T.S. Eliot and comparative mythology. I also played a little tune I made up on guitar for her movie camera as a preview for Saturday. So far as I know the TV station will be sending a film crew to the gym this Saturday to film me riding and playing for their news broadcast sometime. Wish me luck please. Thanks.

Now back to the subject of this thread. It's about eating catfish, right?

That's what I think might be the case, as not only does he go to a Catholic university, but he's also Mormon. Both the Catholic and LDS churches teach that homosexuality is a major sin, so if anyone is gay in those churches, they learn to hide it, or in some cases, they quit going to church.

In a way, it's a good thing this football player didn't go to BYU as once the hoax was exposed, he might have been kicked off the football team. BYU had kicked a basketball player off of the team when he admitted to premarital sex with his girlfriend. In the BYU case, the girlfriend was real.

I spend quite a bit of time talking to people online, and sometime I wonder if it's fake but mostly I don't. I think I"m a pretty good judge of character. I've met several people in real life that I first met online and haven't been faulted - so far at least.

There's a documentary called 'catfish' about the guys experience, his friends were making it to follow the 'relationship' as it progressed, in no way expecting how it turned out. The whole thing was kind of sad about the deceptive woman, she was clearly miserable and lonely, and luckily the 'victim' could identify that and didn't take finding out about the whole thing too badly, actually he just felt quite sorry for her and treated her really kindly. To me it show's a lot about his character, seems like a really great guy, I"d date him haha.

Anyway I thought the documentary was pretty good and recommend it for anyone that'd be interested.

Some of you guys are even more like I am than I am. It's creepy.

Except for riding the bicycle without holding the handlebars. I would have fallen off straight away.


Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have to watch it.

Yes. I've actually stopped talking to a few people because they wouldn't send pictures or wouldn't give a phone number after talking online for a week.

I watched the movie. Boy, what a weird situation. But, that football player is weirder, being genuinely in love with a scammer. And, being quite publicly humiliated.

I've never beeen catfish scammed, but I've been scammed by fat girl angle shots (TM) before.

men use certain camera angles to their advantage to hide "flaws" as well. but i'm sure it all becomes apparent pretty quickly in person.

Of course you would want to use you best photo. Although, if you're using one from a long time ago, then it is getting borderline catfishy.

yes, exactly. i think it's a no-brainer to use those pictures. i saw an excellent explanation of the "myspace angle" and how it is achieved with a short focal length - it explains why so many men and women can achieve such smashing photos with a handheld device.

I had to look this up

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... ce%20angle

I guess that one should be wary of these shots.



Maybe a tad misleading.