Don’t have your time wasted talking to a catfish scammer online. Dating online is becoming more common, 40% of people are on online dating apps. And of that 40%, 53% of them lie on their online dating profile. That’s more than half!
Don’t getting catfished by noticing the red flags sooner. Don’t second guess and trust your gut feeling. Know when you’re talking to a snake. Not only have people have been publicly humiliated falling in love with a complete fake but some have been robbed of their money too. A divorcee named Joyce from Chicago was swindled into giving her online lover $200,000! That money was all her retirement and more. She can no longer pay her bills and is still single.
Being catfished is meeting a person completely different from what you were told online. This includes looks, financial stability, and physical and mental health.
Prevent being robbed and tricked when watching for these 5 signs dating online.
No Video Chat
This is a huge indicator when dating online that the person you’re talking to is lying about who they are. Especially about their appearance. Sending you pictures all day doesn’t confirm they’re real. Every time you request a video chat, and they give you an excuse on why they can’t end it immediately.
Sexting Only
Constantly requesting nudes of you or seeing you slightly naked but you don’t know what he looks like or sounds like is a creep. Know that this isn’t a person genuinely interested in getting to know you. Instead, they are most likely looking to sell your pictures and videos or be obsessive and even more creepy.
No Pictures
When the person you are talking to online doesn’t have pictures from their childhood or pictures of anything else for that matter. You aren’t talking to the person they “claim to be”. With technology today most people have pictures from when they were younger.
No social media
Social media isn’t just being on social sites like twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Social Media is interacting with people creating, sharing, and exchanging information in a virtual community and network. Not everyone has to publicly share their private life bit by bit. But if he only has one email address and its henryloverboy456@hotmail beat it sis.
He won’t meet you
Meeting in person isn’t an option and he doesn’t care how many times you ask. If that’s the case, then what’s the point? Talking through email and text for the rest of your life? Are you going to get married through email? Yea, no. Let that “man” go.
Why do People Catfish
The intent of catfishing is for financial gain, compromising a victim, intentionally upset someone, or to wish fulfillment. Many people who catfish have some sort of mental illness.
Discover why they want to chat with you
Asking for work experience and how much you make, steering you to crypto currency, the chat is for financial gain. Asking for embarrassing details about your life means they are trying to compromise you. Requesting gifts is suggesting fulfillment and being rude and showing lack of respect shows they are out to hurt you.
Avoid a catfish by
- Not giving our financial information
- Don’t allow yourself to be compromised
- Not sharing your personal information
- Don’t believe everything they say without proof
Hold your ground when dating someone new and never poor out your entire life to a stranger. Dating someone now? Find out if he’s only seeing you or dating someone else here.
