r/catfish

I have tried several apps but no help or they say I need to pay to search

Back story:

This has been going on for like a year. During this entire year she has never video chatted, only pictures. She claims to be located in UK. And my friend is here in the USA. It started with discord, she sent him random gifts which can be a sign it’s a legit person, but it can also be an investment to build trust and scam further and romance scammers use this tactic.

When she was supposed to come visit, about a month before her flight she claimed to get kicked out of her house because her family didn’t like my friend. which resulted in him sending her money to be able to live. THEN, literally like a week before she was gonna fly down she supposedly had a seizure that put her in the hospital and for awhile she didn’t even claim to remember who he was. Which resulted in him sending her even more money because she was bedridden and her parents supposedly wouldn’t let her move back in. This allows her to dodge the flight while also receiving even more money.

Fast forward: we have tried to talk to him about it and make him see what’s happening but he just drops the subject and refuses to even speak a word about it to anyone. He has now bought a passport and plans to see her.

My question is, (and my most important question to Reddit) what could the scammers final goal be? If he goes and sees them, the scam has ended. So why would a scammer do that? Could they have an even more malicious goal? What could they possibly be planning to do, money-wise to have my friend fly down there?

I’m tryna figure out why my boy is lying about dating this girl (like a supermodel). He posts pics with her and swears they’re together. Just wondering if anyone has a couple credits to look her up.

So they are in a online relationship the person has never talked or video called. They have sent pictures and the reverse image search came back with nothing. What is some ways she can test this person without seeming like she doesn’t trust them?

My (21F) dad (73M) is kind of losing it lately and is getting catfished by someone impersonating the model Mercedes Blanche (29F), and he is planning to fly to New York in a few months to "meet up with her". The whole Facebook account is very fraudulent, she claims it's her "backup account," and all the videos she has sent him are extremely suspicious/AI looking. I have reported her account to Facebook with no luck in it being removed yet. He is VERY convinced she is real despite multiple family members and coworkers expressing their concern.

My dad has also been extremely mistrusting of his doctor (he has had two heart attacks, one two years ago) and refuses to take his prescribed medication and instead has been micro-dosing ivermectin for horses he gets at our local Murdoch's because it "clears his head". My aunt (his sister) thinks this medication is making him act this way. I don't know what to do, I am extremely scared for him, we are in the U.S. and I am unsure of what help I can give him because aside from this situation, he doesn't appear to be mentally ill or anything so I'm worried about if i can admit him somewhere or not.

I'm really scared. I don't want my dad to get scammed or go to New York or die off of taking horse meds. I wish this was a joke but it's not. If anyone has any advice on what to do I would appreciate it.

I used to be active in this sub months ago. Hey guys. Im really dmsad after a breakup and wanna go on a chatsite. I know things like sora ai and everything it will be difficult to see who is not AI and who isn't. Are chat sites a no go now?

(English is not my first language) The first time i made a fake account and a completely different identity it was in 2022 i was 14, it was on discord, my whole life I didn’t like myself and i wanted another reality so i created it by this account and i was really good at it, the worst part is that i catfished my sister using this profile, it started when i helped her, there were a common server between us, and i was an admin on it we decided to make a competition for who will do the best edit and my sister was an editor so she posted her edit, i already told my sister that i know this admin and we are friends (lets name my catfish account x) , so i told her i am friends with x and i can tell x to look up at ur edit to increase your winning chance, and things went really well and i got her a nitro subscription, she was really happy and she thanked x a lot , then things started to get was deeper and i like the idea of it and started to massage her, i made a whole fake account on insta and posted fake photos and even recorded her voices, i was really good at it i figured all the ways to not be suspicious.

Then randomly i realized that even on my fake account people didn’t like me and my dms always silent i tried to be like them more but nothing worked, i felt strange feeling then my discord server started to die and people are not active so my discord was quiet, even tho everyone has a friend group to hang out with, so on a random day i deleted my insta account and disappeared, and my sister sometimes tell me that she missed x. I hate that i dont feel guilty about it even tho i didnt tru to know her secrets or anything, but i know this is wrong but i dont feel any kind of regret and I quit out of boredom not actual regret. (This story finished at early 2025)

Here’s the real bad part

I have a friend he really loves me and really see me as a real friend and a trustworthy person, he is the one that came and talk to me then we became a friends on early 2025 too, but the last month, i did another account on insta with fake identity, lets name this profile as z, i did a fake story from z account and mentioned myself, i know that my friend would text me and ask me who is that, and i knew that he would follow him and yes he did. So z and my friend followed each others and i catfished him and introduced myself as boy so he can be comfortable with me more. Later things between me and my friend didn’t went well and we blocked each other, but i still have him on z account, he shared a lot of things about his personal problems and i opened up to him and made up a fake problems and acted empathetic, i know what how he like to be treated, i suppressed the way i really want to respond and used english with him since english is not my first language, and the personality changes when u use a language other than ur first language. He trusted me and sharing with me secrets that he never shared with me the real me, he even told me HIS BIGGEST SECRET that genuinely can destroy his social life and people’s view about him, i didn’t do that out of curiosity because on not curious person, idl what should i do now i want to keep going, but i know i should not.

i feel like catfishing feeding something inside me idk what it is, i once tried to catfish a really close friend but i hesitated, and i dont feel anything about my actions i really just feel nothing no regret or guilt about it, i know its a pure manipulation but i always think that they are stupid enough to believe this**،** and sometimes i dont even see it as a wrong action.

EDITED to be easier to digest. I was pouring my heart out in the original rendition. Apologies if my responses are very emotional and not logical. So sorry. I guess it's not a long post anymore.

Currently I have no avenue of getting therapy just for myself. E is making attempts to get couples therapy for us.

Both "born" in 2003. I am 23. My birthday was not long ago this month. My partner, who I believed to be 22, turning 23, is actually 18, turning 19 in July. We are an LDR.

My partner, E, has been lying to me about their age and appearance while getting into a pseudo-situationship / real relationship with me.

We have engaged sexually through phone sex, and sexting, but no suggestive or downright lascivious images have been shared.

We were both uncomfortable with video calling, due to past problems, but would send images of each other, simple and cute things like hand-hearts, or outfit pictures for when we went out for the day, or just pictures of our faces on days we felt like we looked nice. Things that wouldn't warrant a reverse search.

They broke down to me a few days ago confessing to me about their misdeeds, telling me that they had been lying the entire time, and that yes, while I was 21, they were 17, engaging sexually with me.

E does not believe I am a groomer, or a pedophile. My moral grounds speak for this to people who know me, as I am very vocal as a victim of grooming myself. E takes full accountability for the shitty things they have done to me, and fully wants me to punish them for their actions.

My issue comes from my moral dilemma. Part of me does not care about the lying, but I care deeply about the fact that I feel as if I were to give them a second chance with me, that I would be no different from a pedophile, or a groomer, despite the fact they are a legal adult, and our age gap is only four years. I have known them for 5, meaning when I was 18, they were 14, adding to a layer of the dilemma I face.

For the both of our health, I want to know if It is okay from a moral standpoint to give them a second chance with me, or if It is best for them to be away from me.

I won’t mention much for now but will a catfish meet someone irl? I met this 23y girl apparently online on discord we and dating from 8 months now we have not met yet but she never refuses to meet if i tell her that i am coming on even the next day and has told me she will either come meet me if i am

Unable to due to personal family reasons, we had a huge fight where we stopped talking for 5 months ( before dating ) and it was because i was unable to go and meet her at this time

So well it seems confusing, we have talked once on phone call but video nope and never had any sexual talks

i cant post a photo on here can someone dm me

There is a website that allows you to paste a url, then share a link that when clicked, will give you the ip address of who clicked on it. Reddit doesn't allow it to be mentioned. If your catfish doesn't open it with a VPN, then you can see where they are. The problem is that the website is in the link address. If they're astute, they won't open a YouTube video that has www.grab... in the url. Is there a way to mask the link so it will look like a proper link?

would anyone have a premium subscription to a reverse image search service that I could pretty pleaaasseee, send a couple of images to?

trying to help a friends mum out who is just so so blind to the blatant catfishing

Could I ask for someone’s help?

I’ve tried a bunch of free tools to reverse this car fish, but nothing definitive, would anyone be able to help?

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