ONE SCARY CATFISH STORY
What is catfishing?
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People pretending on Facebook or any other social network to be others who they are not are called catfishes
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The risks of catfishing
victims of catfishing
I was catfished by someone who pretended to be one of my ushers at church. Every time I spoke to him on Facebook or Instagram, he was telling me how much he loved me and cared for me. I was surprised because for me he was my usher and was already engaged. When I saw him to church, we could just greet each other and nothing else. After three months speaking with the guy on the internet, I started to ask many questions to myself. Then I decided to go and meet him so that he could tell me what was going on. By the time I reached his place, he was with his fiancee, so I told his fiancee everything. Surprisingly the guy denied everything and said he did not know the person who was using his profile and pretended to be him. That when we discovered that he was catfished. To put an end to that story, my usher and his fiancee both apologized to me. They threatened that catfish to stop disturbing me. Luckily he was scared and stopped writing to me.
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| Is is very dangerous to catfish someone because once you’re caught, these people can sue you if they’ve many or want to, then you’ll end up in prison. Also it is dangerous for the person who has been catfished in the way that the person can easily be heart broken and even loses his or her trust on other people. And most of the time it can damage our personal life if we’ve been a victim of catfishing. |
I was catfished by someone who pretended to be one of my ushers at church. Every time I spoke to him on Facebook or Instagram, he was telling me how much he loved me and cared for me. I was surprised because for me he was my usher and was already engaged. When I saw him to church, we could just greet each other and nothing else. After three months speaking with the guy on the internet, I started to ask many questions to myself. Then I decided to go and meet him so that he could tell me what was going on. By the time I reached his place, he was with his fiancee, so I told his fiancee everything. Surprisingly the guy denied everything and said he did not know the person who was using his profile and pretended to be him. That when we discovered that he was catfished. To put an end to that story, my usher and his fiancee both apologized to me. They threatened that catfish to stop disturbing me. Luckily he was scared and stopped writing to me.
What's next?
Both I and my usher were catfished, what we needed to
do was to download the program called TinEye which gives us the origin of the image
or photo posted on a person’s profile. From there we can easily find out whether
the person we're dealing with is fraud or not.
Where do I look for help?
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SaveTnet is a place where we can be helped. This site gives us all the advises we need and tells us what to do after being catfished. It also provides several strategies on how to discover a fake account and even find out if someone is using our images somewhere. |
