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With this beloved digital age bestowed upon us...

The other day my co-worker was telling me about this friend of hers who was getting engaged on Valentine's day. She was giving me some back story to this girl. She used to be in love with a guy she met on some matrimonial site that lived in London. He was apparently a doctor and a son of a really well off family. He even flew to Texas to visit her once. But this girl would be attempting to heckle her friends (including my co-worker) into helping her transfer thousands of dollars to this British, well off doctor's bank accounts.. everyone warned her not to but she didn't listen. Nobody understood why she didn't just directly transfer from her accounts to his if he had intentions to pay her back. Like how was that not shady to her at all. Anyway, of course they never ended up getting married, mostly due to the guy not keeping up his end of the commitments. She ended up locally engaged to a friend of her brother's. And she's also trying to get her money back from the British guy... -_-

My air/fire dom doesn't understand how people fall for shit like that. ESPECIALLY WOMEN WHEN IT COMES TO LARGE SUMS OF MONEY. Apparently online dating and romance scams are a huge thing. I guess people have too much money laying around that they need to blow instead of y'kno like pay off their debts or even use on themselves.

In college there were so many girls using online dating to get guys to deliver them free food. All from behind the screen. What motivates a guy to give up their money easily for these chicks that they never met or end up meeting? Are they not aware the chick has multiple other guys she's also using? Is the investment all for a mere nip slip pic?

The woman who lost $ 250k to an online dating scam.

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One of my exes started to talk to a woman through a dating site and arranged to meet in the next county where she’d flown in from another country to mind her sick mother.

A few days later she told him she couldn’t meet as her mother was too sick and she started to talk about not having much money. Time rolls on and he smelt a catfish and did some digging. He’d seen pics of the woman on her profile who ended up being a man from Nigeria

Jfc
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I don't even understand the concept of "dating online" like it doesn't make any sense, there's absolutely 0 spark or whatsoever.

The plan is to meet in real life though.

I mean it's better to get to know somebody irl than through a website.
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I think the one thing online dating is useful at is connecting you to ideal people you wish could be around you irl. Like if you want an Ivy League graduate who has their own startup, there’s literally an app to connect you to those kinds of people specifically. Many of these people don’t have the time to go out and socialize in the appropriate places.
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The danger is really no different than in person hookups. It's crazy motherfuckers everywhere. Online and offline. Honestly, I think I've met more crazy people offline than online. I've met so many crazy people offline, that I'd rather take things slow and not go outside unless I have to. Its not permanent. I just need a break. For some reason..I attract crazy people. And when I say crazy, I don't mean that lightly.

I mean at least if I don't wanna talk to you online, I could just ignore you 🤷🏿‍♂️ without being followed home. Nom saying? Is anybody picking up what I'm putting down? Can you scrape the syrup off the plate?

I'm fucking tired man.

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You can talk to someone for a long time on line and not know what they look like, what gender they are etc but meeting face to face these issues aren't an issue

Apart from my ex outing a catfish, a friend of mine was talking to what she thought was a gorgeous guy (sent pics of a male model) and discovered after some time and "him" keep avoiding meeting her, that she'd been talking to a woman. When challenging her, she said she suffered from mental issues and was lonely....
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Posted by MyStarsShine

You can talk to someone for a long time on line and not know what they look like, what gender they are etc but meeting face to face these issues aren't an issue

Apart from my ex outing a catfish, a friend of mine was talking to what she thought was a gorgeous guy (sent pics of a male model) and discovered after some time and "him" keep avoiding meeting her, that she'd been talking to a woman. When challenging her, she said she suffered from mental issues and was lonely....

I honestly believe there’s no excuse of being catfished from like the past decade. Free video chat has been available on nearly everything from aol/aim/yahoo messenger/skype to facebook/facetime/snapchat.

Most people these days are eager to meet in real life as soon as possible or else they move onto the next person. It’s faster than ever to go through people now.
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Posted by Anomalous

The danger is really no different than in person hookups. It's crazy motherfuckers everywhere. Online and offline. Honestly, I think I've met more crazy people offline than online. I've met so many crazy people offline, that I'd rather take things slow and not go outside unless I have to. Its not permanent. I just need a break. For some reason..I attract crazy people. And when I say crazy, I don't mean that lightly.

I mean at least if I don't wanna talk to you online, I could just ignore you 🤷🏿‍♂️ without being followed home. Nom saying? Is anybody picking up what I'm putting down? Can you scrape the syrup off the plate?

I'm fucking tired man.

Can I see your chart? I wonder what in it attracts the crazies
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Online dating deserves everything that comes to them.

Aw not really :/ My son dated a girl once from a dating site, he's only 20 and works so much he barely has time to meet anyone.

So he met a girl who goes to school in NYC for dancing. And he was kind of smitten and took her out a few times.

He was really looking for a good decent person and she probably is too occupied with her career and just looks for guys her age to buy her dinner and take her out. She flat out used him.

I'm glad he gave up on the dating site after, but not everyone is there for selfish reasons.

I tried it a while back and nope, not for me. Most are not looking for anything more profound than meaningless sex.
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I totally agre, the stories I hear more than not end un tragic. I wish the best for your son.
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Posted by SassyKiwi
Posted by Anomalous

The danger is really no different than in person hookups. It's crazy motherfuckers everywhere. Online and offline. Honestly, I think I've met more crazy people offline than online. I've met so many crazy people offline, that I'd rather take things slow and not go outside unless I have to. Its not permanent. I just need a break. For some reason..I attract crazy people. And when I say crazy, I don't mean that lightly.

I mean at least if I don't wanna talk to you online, I could just ignore you 🤷🏿‍♂️ without being followed home. Nom saying? Is anybody picking up what I'm putting down? Can you scrape the syrup off the plate?

I'm fucking tired man.

Can I see your chart? I wonder what in it attracts the crazies
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Does it have something to do with Juno? I attract forbidden/taboo kind of men. i can only attribute it to my Juno in scorpio which is in the 8th house
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Posted by SassyKiwi
Posted by Anomalous

The danger is really no different than in person hookups. It's crazy motherfuckers everywhere. Online and offline. Honestly, I think I've met more crazy people offline than online. I've met so many crazy people offline, that I'd rather take things slow and not go outside unless I have to. Its not permanent. I just need a break. For some reason..I attract crazy people. And when I say crazy, I don't mean that lightly.

I mean at least if I don't wanna talk to you online, I could just ignore you 🤷🏿‍♂️ without being followed home. Nom saying? Is anybody picking up what I'm putting down? Can you scrape the syrup off the plate?

I'm fucking tired man.

Can I see your chart? I wonder what in it attracts the crazies
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It's in photos on my profile.
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I was on tinder way back in its infancy before facetiming was really that common so it didn't even cross my mind to verify via video chat.

Anyways spent months vetting dudes before I agreed to meet up face to face.

Met 3 total.

2 were catfishes. 2!

Not very good odds.

One was the same dude in the pictures but 10years older and about 100pds heavier. Other one was a completely different person, I did an about face and walked my ass out smh. The old heavyset guy I stayed for the dinner but told him at the end when he asked when we could see each other again that nope not happening. Why? Can't build something based on lies. Shrug.

3rd guy had a relationship with but yeah basically waste of my time. Cause we matched when he was on leave visiting family and lived in another state and was stationed overseas for half a year. Why I waited around for him I'll never know. But thanks to that experience no more military guys for me. Nope. No thanks.

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Posted by LittleStar

The problem with online dating is that you pick people based off of a checklist or photo which doesn’t actually matter once it moves to IRL.

I don’t think I’d be able to pick anyone quality from that.

However apparently millennials that actually are dating are online dating more than any other method? Something like 80% of millennials don’t date period.

I think people don’t know how to meet organically because we are so much into the stranger danger and like vetting people before we meet.

People want to have control over the process. So checklists and profiles - they show a list of qualities maybe or common interests. But that can set you up for unrealistic expectations and building people into a fantasy based off of really nothing that matters in a relationship.


Yeah meeting people the natural way seems more exciting anyways.

Aquarius gbff will fuck dudes off grinder but dudes he meets organically he will actually date and hold off having sex. Not because they are better looking or more interesting or anything like that, but because he is excited about meeting them in the wild. Less disillusionment.

If your single always take people up on their invites. Cause who knows, you might meet your forever person at your friends house party once you meet their mutual friends cousins boyfriends bestie whose in town visiting or whatevs.

That or people date their coworkers which is so cringe to me, could not.
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Online dating deserves everything that comes to them.

Aw not really :/ My son dated a girl once from a dating site, he's only 20 and works so much he barely has time to meet anyone.

So he met a girl who goes to school in NYC for dancing. And he was kind of smitten and took her out a few times.

He was really looking for a good decent person and she probably is too occupied with her career and just looks for guys her age to buy her dinner and take her out. She flat out used him.

I'm glad he gave up on the dating site after, but not everyone is there for selfish reasons.

I tried it a while back and nope, not for me. Most are not looking for anything more profound than meaningless sex.

I totally agre, the stories I hear more than not end un tragic. I wish the best for your son.

I don't know many people that actually meet someone online and have a genuine serious relationship. I can only think of one person whose had that.

He'll be alright, he's a good one. And thank yah 🙂
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I like the way you think, you have to be positive to receive positive blessings. Your son will be more than ok.