🙄 Honestly I simply cannot understand how you would plan a wedding to someone you have never met. Many years ago, I had a penpal. We would write, send photos and speak on the phone (back in 1989, so no internet). We got on extremely well over several years of communication. So when he invited me to stay with him one Thanksgiving, I jumped at the chance to finally meet him. Within the first hour of meeting him, he was annoying the beejeebees out of me. He spoke with his mouth full, tunelessly whistled and had terrible wind. I annoyed him too with my smoking and whatnot. Needless to say, the trip was a disaster and we never contacted each other ever again. So I can understand being attracted to a photo online or being turned on by a phone call, but neither of these prepare you for actually meeting face to face in real life. Getting to know a real person with all their disgusting and annoying habits is the first step to be taken....NOT planning a friggen wedding.
True, that happened to me too, in the time when I had pen-friends. In letters - paper or online - you have all the time in the world to think about how to express yourself, to make the best possible impression. In reality... you cannot hold this up for long.
@@iHeartAmySue Do you mean that ironically..? In that case: it IS good advice. It is so easy to let your imagination run wild when you have connected with someone of the opposite sex, and especially if you have difficulties meating anyone IRL. Your imagination starts to fill in positive things that are not there, and you choose to ignore the bad things that shine through. That is what is happening in these romance scams, but - as MrsSlocombesPuddyCat, and also I, pointed out: it can happen even if the person on the other side is who he says he is. He can still have annoying habits, an unpleasant smell, feminine mannerisms, a strange way of walking, a mother, big sister or ex wife who is controlling him... To plan a wedding when you have only seen pictures and chatted with your "groom" is absurd.
Omg, I'm not up to that part yet, it's just started but the last photoshopped pic of a guy in hospital had me properly laughing out loud for ages. It was the most obvious fake pic ever, looked like Buzz Lightyear with his far too big head for the body. I hope this is just as funny, I need that kinda laugh tonight 😂 Edit 😂 that's hilarious but not as funny as the other one. Both of them are laughable af though. I can't believe she said it was a good photoshop job. I suppose it is compared to some I've seen but that's not saying much when the others were so insanely fake. This is a terrible edit.
@@staceykersting705 I have done that about 4 or 5 times, some ask me why, what for? My response is if he is trying to scam me, he can’t take advantage of another person, but I mess with them ) one asked me for 15k to pay off the mortgage or his mom will lose the house. I said sure, I would gladly do that, but I needed bank name and account number ))) of course he was stunned, good times!
It’s nice to see one woman that put an end to her scammer before he absolutely broke her! She had a gut feeling and followed that! Hooray for her! That scammer will deal with karma and Crystal will be blessed in her future! 😊❤🎉
I've used POF..i was interested in trying an online dating site...but when i thought of dating, i was actually assuming i would eventually want to date someone who lived relatively near me!! Why do these people even bother speaking to someone miles away, even in another country if they're genuinely wanting to find a partner?
Just wanted to let you know that I've been watching lots of RUclips videos about scamming. They've been incredibly enlightening! A couple of days ago my younger daughter commented on a Facebook post regarding a dog story. She tagged me otherwise I would have missed it. After responding to what she posted I began to look at the other comments. To my horror I found over a dozen women who had made simple comments, such as "Wow, great story" and they received slimy responses from 3 different names - for all I know all 3 could be the same person. Each of these creeps said they thought the woman was beautiful and they wanted to be friends. 2 guys were very polite, one was just a jerk. Anyway I sent each woman a message letting them know the "Harry" or "Ben" or "Pradeep" had just sent the exact same words to several other women. I urged them to be careful because that's how scammers try to lure their victims. 3 of the women thanked me. Thanks really goes to your RUclips videos. Without them I'd be oblivious and wouldn't have known anything was wrong. Please don't stop. Your messages about scamming need to reach lots more!!🤗
Ahh Crystal - call it a lesson learned. Don't feel ashamed and thank you for being open and sharing to help warn others. Also ... you're gorgeous. Go out and meet REAL people in the FLESH and make sure they're not spongers, scroungers, con artists. Anyone that asks for money from others is a loser.
She can get a real life man on her own. No need for online dating. I see a pattern that the smartest women who do not fall for this are also the ones who look very well for their age.
Yeah she's cute, and she strikes me as the strong woman type who has her own money and credit and doesn't need some dude just for the economic security.
I think that’s the big problem with most that have been or are being scammed… embarrassing for others to know you fell for nonsense and lost money .. I wish more would speak up but I think too many bury their head in shame. It’s too bad cause their are a lot of people who can help. 🫤
True, that's why they gotta get credit for coming out and potentially saving someone else, the scammers would love nothing more then to have all their victims stick their heads in the sand. But there's definitely some of these people that make it all but impossible to have any sympathy for them.
Here's my take, if they say they love you they're going to marry you and ask you for money all within a short time of texting them and you never even physically seen this person. Block them immediately .Do 🚫 not send anyone money no matter how bad you feel about their SOB stories
Did you notice the doctor writing, "a fair complexioned man" Too funny!! For one thing it takes months to get a hospital bill, at least it does in our area.
True. Confronting a scammer would be like confronting a robot. They have no soul. They have no heart. No one can get through to them. They're just on to their next victim.
@@msthrillingcommentary1343-- but it's NOT normal to spend as much time as she does chasing fake men on the internet, when she has FIVE kids in real life that need her time
I just don’t get it...she was going to marry someone without meeting him??🤦♀️ I’m glad she came to her senses and she is going to help someone else. God bless her and her family!
Women with children need to be extra cautious about letting a man into their lives no matter what the distance. Children must protected from those who may hurt or take advantage of them. Mothers, wake up. I live near Seattle and a local woman met a man online. Second date he murdered her. Hurting women can go way beyond financial hardship with irreversible consequences The woman murdered was a mother, too..
Yes yes yes. I honestly don't think women should introduce a man to her children, let alone bring him around, until she's so serious that she plans on marrying the man and staying with him until her kids are at least 18. iF you need a man at all. Preferably make it work with the father of the kids, if you can't, then try not to date anyone until your youngest hits 18. If you absolutely can't put your children first then at least be sure you'll marry the man and keep him around until they're 18. Kids are seriously so devastated by divorce and step parents. Even when things go great!! Yeah, I know it's hard. I'm doing my best to stay with the father of my children even though it's incredibly difficult. But my kids come first so I'm gonna find a way to keep the family together no matter what. If I can do it, most women can
OMG. I would like to say thank you very much showing this educated video. Thats great that she invested her time in Social Catfish and found out the truth.
That "hospitality" letter sent from "doctor Charles" at "hospital" "at about the very late hours of 7pm" is utterly ridiculous. A 5 year old could have written a better fake letter. what is wrong with people?
I retired from nursing, was around many doctors over the years & can't even imagine one of them sending emails/doing something like that. That's laughable. But I do feel bad for this lady, she's beautiful & certainly never deserved that.
To be very truthful what young man is going to want a single mother with five kids??? no shade on you Crystal, but think about it. You can do just fine without a man or without this man you know in your heart he’s a scammer just run like hell
@@ellemorgan1331 "You have to believe you are a catch " But that is also how these scammers prey on people. They target your self esteem, vanity, ego, whatever you want to call it. I think in the end, we have to be realistic.
I "met" one of these scammers I only spoke to him because he said he was in Cypress (I though he ment Cypress Texas up the road) I would sent a brief note and get a long crazy note back. I was sharing it with friends and "trolling" him. But, seriously it'd exhausting. Just relentless non sense he had the whole b.s the dead wife, the motherless daughter, bring sent to Benin and warning of pirates I finally said "I think we want different things so good luck!" And got a hysterical note back about why yikes!
I honestly don’t understand woman of that age thinks young good looking guy is attracted to her ( no disrespect) But us women should be smarter that this. She is beautiful lady ,but women should not think with their heart but their God given head.
Really. What guy wants to move in with 5 kids he does not know And now she sends it won’t bother me Single mother giving away money and not helping her kids Delusional mother
"At least I'll have peace of mind knowing that he can't do this to anyone else..." Are you out of your ever-loving mind, lady? He is probably scamming 50 other people RIGHT NOW! Just because you find out YOU are being scammed isn't going to stop him from scamming others one little bit! My mind can't even grasp how out of touch with reality these people are!
She’s pretty looks like she could be Missy Elliot’s sister, I’m not sure how much she helped him with but it seems like she didn’t lose a whole lot by talking to this catfish so that’s great atleast she can move on and now and be more careful
Sadly real online is few and far between. Everyone lookin for real love . I hopefully we all are able to experience it even for a second I call that a blessing
sure she does. willing to marry someone she never talked to over video or phone, never met, that is a high level of stupid. she should be very embarrassed.
He doesn’t ask her “Will you marry me” he says in the text “I want to get married”. Does it really matter who he gets married to as long as it’s an American apparently. I wish this lady luck, she’s pretty, is not a dummy and deserves a good man if that’s what she really wants. She certainly doesn’t deserve a scammer who is lying.
Kristina Lasic I met this young man on A dating called BBW ( I’m plus size and beautiful ) he’s about 14 years younger than me and he’s Nigerian (He’s lives there) he’s a musical artist there (it’s true) he has some videos-here on RUclips and on on Spotify, Amazon & ITunes. So we met at the end of September he’s a sweet and caring guy we did first video chat, phone chat & text everyday on WhatsApp. Since SARS began with protests back in October things were bad there so like s a couple of weeks in October he asked me for money to get food and petro ( gas)for the electric to work of course like five days after we me he fell in love with me (yup same ole line) Because he hasn’t been able to perform shows since all that craziness there the show he performed was mid September so I’m like wow he’s asking for like $300 so ok me being nice I sent him $200 thru an mobile app which they can receive cash in minutes they just go at an ATM. Now the thing is he didn’t disappear he was appreciative that I helped him. Now we are still talking everyday no disappearing acts yet so as of 2 weeks ago he need $1000.00 to go To Dubai for his music thing and that the people taking care of his music stuff will pay for hotel , food & transportation while there for 1 week so he tells me he’s to be paid $1 million and would give me back my money two weeks later(nope not giving dude no money) so he had to reschedule everything for this week as of Monday to go to Dubai so he gave some agent my number (All thru WhatsApp) btw my number is a Google number so this agent messaged me and left a voice note explaining the situation for my friend and both of them sent me receipts showing what needs to be paid for the flight there. Ok so this agent works for this company called HM Global Connect which I did google and could not find any info on this company (Hmm a fake company idk) then somehow a few days asked if could help out with $600 or 700 instead of the $1000. So my friend is making feel guilty for not sending anymore money for food water etc and helping him with his flight ticket. I’m like I can’t send anything so he feels I’m being heartless because I didn’t answer a couple of calls or texts and he says he really want to be with me forever and it’s just crazy this situation because I really like him a lot had feelings for him almost 3 months now. But damn he asked for money. I do feel bad for him but I don’t know if his money or not. No with the sending mon thru the mobile app[ which is legit] so my friend doesn’t have my personal info at all just my name. He gave me his whole name and bank of course. So he left me bunches of text messages because the opportunity has gone but there is a chance he can redo this next mont because his Visa expires the end of next month. I’m still not sending any money so if we never speak again so be it. Now it’s crazy I was like his only chance to get money from so crazy right? I do see live videos of him in his home studio making music with his producer and sends me other videos later also. Well now needs money for food etc he told me a childhood friend has been helping him with some food and water not much tho. Again he’s not forcing me t help him but feels I should because we are together as couple ( I don’t see it that way) but I do care for him so idk I just don’t think I should be sending anymore money (just that one time) now don’t Know if I will ever get it back even tho he say he will eventually $200 is money don’t care if it’s a lot more. So yeah that’s my story.
@@deloresannwells If I needed money, I would never dream of asking a random stranger online for it. Maybe that is why these scams are so successful, most of us are naive and would never do these things ourselves and we can't believe that other people are capable of it. They say the average person that sends money to a scammer will lose several thousand dollars to them before they are either broke or wake up to what is happening.
They ask for a small amount. The victim begins to feel they have invested in the “relationship”, so they ignore red flags. This grows worse. Some are buying dreams and love. Some are greedy, believing the other person is rich. Some are just easy emotional prey. Some are spiritual prey. Some are just brain challenged.
@@43hamiltontrina atleast on what’s up some get to be more real than on FB.. what’s up exposes their contact numbers though 😅in 2018 I met one, who called me his wife on a 2 days 😂😂😂charting ,we met on Twitter, the idiot told me he was a musician and a producer living in Florida, I quickly ask for his adress and told him we might be neighbors 😂😂😂he asked me if I could download Hangouts 😂😂I knew then he was a scammer from Africa😉 I went with the flow, he then told me that his ex wife had died and because their divorce wasn’t finalized they have now frozen all his accounts… He wanted to borrow $2500 from me,that was in day 5..I told him my husband don’t u worry just go to the bank with your identity they will help you😅😅he started to be less interested in me, I called him asking for money too😂😂he then block me
I don't mean to be mean, but how can women be so desperate for a man? My husband passed away in 2013 and I've had scammers try to get me to send money. The last one a couple of weeks ago.
I have experienced feelings of loneliness in my life too. But last time I experienced it, I joined a local community college and met people like that. I would also consider getting a dog, as that forces you to get outside every day to the local dog park and you can chat to people there. If I wanted sex, then I could hire a male escort or just buy a vibrator. I could even chat to a stranger on an online forum. But I would *NEVER* send money to anyone - wouldn't even lend it to my sisters - let alone give it to someone I had never met.
Any native English speaker who took even a cursory glance at that email allegedly from "exxon mobile," aka all lowercase and misspelled version of ExxonMobil, should not have had to pay Social Catfish to decode this situation. It's so laughably bad that I can hardly believe it exists.
Well done Crystal. Not dumb as a post like many of the others on these videos. I strung one along for three weeks once. The bitcoin machines I went to kept being broken! Then I sent him/her an article about Nigerian Romance Scammers and asked their thoughts on it.
If they say I love you before you meet,how can anyone love something they've seen or touched. The accent is the give away. Crystal you are a brave woman. God is watching out for you. I've played their little games just to hear their sweet words as soon as they ask for money gift cards they get blocked after I give them a piece of my mind
Get off online dating FOR GOOD! It's no good for YOU!! What you NEED to do is ask your friends, co-workers or family members to introduce you to a nice man who has the same morals and standards you do!!
Good job Crystal!! You listened to your inner self and put a stop to this before it went too far! Good luck to you! And try to enjoy being single while it lasts! When you meet the right person, you will know it 😊 Take care!
Revealing your experience helps 100%. But.. he will do it to others again, in fact they are probably talking to hundreds of others simultaneously as a group/team.
Crystal is awesome! She is a pretty lady and she sounds sharp to me. She said "I feel stupid" but she's so much smarter than these folks who say "I'm so smart, how did this happen to me, I want to prove to my family that this one is REAL..." Crystal owned her mistake and did some investigating herself using the Social Catfish tools. Of course, some of it is the editing/crafting of stories.
Well she is smarter than those dummies. They sit there and go "I'm very very very smart" "you know I don't suffer fools." People who talk like this are usually histrionic and very dramatic, not very sharp. She's certainly sharper than them and she looks good
Yes! Dramas. If I believed he was for real, I'd think he just had some really bad karma. Some folks just have bad stuff happening. All. The. Time. I don't want any of that negativity in my life. I'd offer a prayer. Give him some words of comfort, and ghost. Guess this works for how to handle a scammer, too.
I'm talking to a girl named Candy Kimberly I think she's Russian or Serbia she's telling me that she lives in the US but she called me and said a few words, sounds extrang, plus she was acting like she can't hear me, I told her that she is scams and she denied.
I don't want to sound mean - but I find it hard to imagine that you'll find young guys out there who are willing to marry a single mom with 5 children!
Sad this happens everyday ! The world need something to help ! Please please please never send money to anyone you never met. No matter how much they love you . Love should be priceless
@Scamming Non Scammers Trust me model looking people will scam other model looking people. Ugly people will scam ugly people. 90% of your friends and family will "borrow" money from you and never return it with no intentions of returning it when they borrowed it, which is a form of scam. Bottom line is if you don't want to lose money never send money to anyone, that you do not mind losing. Only give or lend If it will not matter to you if you never hear from the person again.Often when you lend you think it will strengthen your family or friend relationship, but they will start to avoid you because they owe you and don't want to pay you.
Should be more services out there to run back round checks on number names and more most are a rip-off sadly I feel bad for anyone that actually is in trouble and needs help . Sad to say scammer ruin online trust and people searching for love .
I. Am. Binging. This RUclips channel!!!!! I'm so sorry for these people bc they lose money and also they really love this person - even though they don't exist Also - I love the art work on the wall the starbursts looks like tissue paper or something I love it
I love how these scammers say how well off they are and then magically they somehow lose it all and get hit by cars and sh** lol they go way over the top which is where I have trouble understanding how ppl continue to believe this stuff.
I mean… I had a lot of luck with online dating. Although I met my husband organically in real life. I think it’s really a matter of using common sense. If it’s too good to be true, it usually is.
Well nothing wrong with online dating but EVERYTHING wrong with sending money or agreeing to marry a man (or woman) without at least meeting them first.
They will if they know that you're completely hopeless. LOL. If anything if a friend suggests online dating, it means you're down bad as far as your options
For more information on this story
click this link : socialcatfish.com/blog/victim-loses-40k-to-romance-scammer-after-talking-about-their-future/
@@maleekraj2774 that's a scam too, bot
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I won't even friend any men of any social media.
if you ask me to like at the beginning of the video, that is an automatic dislike.
She's very lovely & sweet. I wish the best for her.
🙄 Honestly I simply cannot understand how you would plan a wedding to someone you have never met. Many years ago, I had a penpal. We would write, send photos and speak on the phone (back in 1989, so no internet). We got on extremely well over several years of communication. So when he invited me to stay with him one Thanksgiving, I jumped at the chance to finally meet him. Within the first hour of meeting him, he was annoying the beejeebees out of me. He spoke with his mouth full, tunelessly whistled and had terrible wind. I annoyed him too with my smoking and whatnot. Needless to say, the trip was a disaster and we never contacted each other ever again. So I can understand being attracted to a photo online or being turned on by a phone call, but neither of these prepare you for actually meeting face to face in real life. Getting to know a real person with all their disgusting and annoying habits is the first step to be taken....NOT planning a friggen wedding.
True, that happened to me too, in the time when I had pen-friends. In letters - paper or online - you have all the time in the world to think about how to express yourself, to make the best possible impression. In reality... you cannot hold this up for long.
Oh wow this is amazing tidbit of advice!
@@iHeartAmySue Do you mean that ironically..? In that case: it IS good advice. It is so easy to let your imagination run wild when you have connected with someone of the opposite sex, and especially if you have difficulties meating anyone IRL. Your imagination starts to fill in positive things that are not there, and you choose to ignore the bad things that shine through. That is what is happening in these romance scams, but - as MrsSlocombesPuddyCat, and also I, pointed out: it can happen even if the person on the other side is who he says he is. He can still have annoying habits, an unpleasant smell, feminine mannerisms, a strange way of walking, a mother, big sister or ex wife who is controlling him... To plan a wedding when you have only seen pictures and chatted with your "groom" is absurd.
Or, you finally meet the person and they have terrible b.o.!
@@catharinaeinarsson😊
I must say Derrick looked pretty damn good for someone who was in intensive care after being hit by a truck!
Awesome photoshop...lol. no
Hit by a truck ? Why am I laughing. ?
Especially since he was in the hospitality lolol
🤣🤣🤣🤣! I almost choked laughing at that!!
Touche 😂😂😂😜😜
I’m proud of her she felt something was off but she was willing to ask for help to confirm.
That photoshopped hospital pic!!!!! SO OBVIOUS!!!! 😂😂😂😂
I'm no photoshop expert, but even I can tell that was photoshopped!
Omg, I'm not up to that part yet, it's just started but the last photoshopped pic of a guy in hospital had me properly laughing out loud for ages. It was the most obvious fake pic ever, looked like Buzz Lightyear with his far too big head for the body. I hope this is just as funny, I need that kinda laugh tonight 😂
Edit 😂 that's hilarious but not as funny as the other one. Both of them are laughable af though. I can't believe she said it was a good photoshop job. I suppose it is compared to some I've seen but that's not saying much when the others were so insanely fake. This is a terrible edit.
Exactly!!!!
I can’t stop giggle at that one. It was so bad 🤣😳
Right!! 😂
Ladies. Shake the cobwebs out of your mind. You can read romance novels and get the same feeling that you get from hearing a complete stranger.
And not be in danger of getting scammed!
Get a Cat or a Dog. They will love you unconditionally
Wow. I never thought of that. Brilliant. Same feeling for the cost of a paperback.
Kathy Walls, I never thought about that. Good one.😉
That's nasty
Block him! He’s a scammer. If you confront him you’ll get manipulated again.
I love stringing them along. 3 weeks sounds about right.
Truth Sister 🌞 You also teach them more about scamming other people 😬
@@staceykersting705 LOLOLOL 👌 That sounds fun 😂
@@staceykersting705 So do I! I love wasting their time so they will have less time to scam others!
@@staceykersting705 I have done that about 4 or 5 times, some ask me why, what for? My response is if he is trying to scam me, he can’t take advantage of another person, but I mess with them ) one asked me for 15k to pay off the mortgage or his mom will lose the house. I said sure, I would gladly do that, but I needed bank name and account number ))) of course he was stunned, good times!
It’s nice to see one woman that put an end to her scammer before he absolutely broke her! She had a gut feeling and followed that! Hooray for her! That scammer will deal with karma and Crystal will be blessed in her future! 😊❤🎉
They always get into an accident on the way to the airport. Haha!
or family member facing death?
hospitalized?
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Such poor luck. Lol
Yup
I've used POF..i was interested in trying an online dating site...but when i thought of dating, i was actually assuming i would eventually want to date someone who lived relatively near me!! Why do these people even bother speaking to someone miles away, even in another country if they're genuinely wanting to find a partner?
Just wanted to let you know that I've been watching lots of RUclips videos about scamming. They've been incredibly enlightening!
A couple of days ago my younger daughter commented on a Facebook post regarding a dog story. She tagged me otherwise I would have missed it.
After responding to what she posted I began to look at the other comments. To my horror I found over a dozen women who had made simple comments, such as "Wow, great story" and they received slimy responses from 3 different names - for all I know all 3 could be the same person.
Each of these creeps said they thought the woman was beautiful and they wanted to be friends. 2 guys were very polite, one was just a jerk.
Anyway I sent each woman a message letting them know the "Harry" or "Ben" or "Pradeep" had just sent the exact same words to several other women. I urged them to be careful because that's how scammers try to lure their victims. 3 of the women thanked me.
Thanks really goes to your RUclips videos. Without them I'd be oblivious and wouldn't have known anything was wrong.
Please don't stop. Your messages about scamming need to reach lots more!!🤗
Wow you're awesome. You probably saved someone from being a victim there. That's really cool of you, good looking out!
Thank you for doing this.
You are a sweetheart❤
If your daughter is as ‘chatty’ as you; you have absolutely nothing to worry about 👌
The whole post was probably a scam to find people to scam.
That photoshop of him in the hospital bed was so bad and obvious! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It was hilarious!
Ahh Crystal - call it a lesson learned. Don't feel ashamed and thank you for being open and sharing to help warn others. Also ... you're gorgeous. Go out and meet REAL people in the FLESH and make sure they're not spongers, scroungers, con artists. Anyone that asks for money from others is a loser.
She can get a real life man on her own. No need for online dating. I see a pattern that the smartest women who do not fall for this are also the ones who look very well for their age.
Crystal is a beautiful woman and she can move forward
Yeah she's cute, and she strikes me as the strong woman type who has her own money and credit and doesn't need some dude just for the economic security.
Is 3 weeks the time when these scammers think they can start asking for money? Geez, please don’t send a grown man money!!! Ever......
Sometimes they ask even sooner than that!
I would be too embarassed to tell anybody that I was "dating" some imaginary persona online.
I think that’s the big problem with most that have been or are being scammed… embarrassing for others to know you fell for nonsense and lost money .. I wish more would speak up but I think too many bury their head in shame. It’s too bad cause their are a lot of people who can help. 🫤
True, that's why they gotta get credit for coming out and potentially saving someone else, the scammers would love nothing more then to have all their victims stick their heads in the sand. But there's definitely some of these people that make it all but impossible to have any sympathy for them.
These are the same type of people who claim to be in long-distance relationships, which are no more real than a nigerian scammer-relationship.
Here's my take, if they say they love you they're going to marry you and ask you for money all within a short time of texting them and you never even physically seen this person. Block them immediately .Do 🚫 not send anyone money no matter how bad you feel about their SOB stories
I thought that hospital-bed photo shop job was pretty sloppy... almost silly looking.
I literally laughed out loud when I saw it
She tried to make crystal feel less dumb
The angle of his head in that pic is so off. It's so blatantly obvious that it's a photoshopped pic.
Right!!! Lol
OMG that hospital bed shot looks like Photoshop. Crazy.
100% fake
😂😂😂even a blind person can see that 😂
@@Saddam-london exactly, so obvious.
Bad photoshop! Lol
Looks like he's got a broken neck
Did you notice the doctor writing, "a fair complexioned man" Too funny!! For one thing it takes months to get a hospital bill, at least it does in our area.
That was Hilarious.... the letters were hilarious
That hospitality letter is hilarious. 😂😂😂
Crystal, you go girl! I'm glad for you that you had the sense to not give that scamming dork a dime!
That is rare and awesome she is a smart beautiful woman who will find someone in due time
I know! So proud of her for REACTING to the 'this feels off' moment and not sending money. Smart lady!
What would make her think that her confronting him means he can't do it to someone else? That's ludicrous.
He will block her and on to the next
True. Confronting a scammer would be like confronting a robot. They have no soul. They have no heart. No one can get through to them. They're just on to their next victim.
Shake him off, Crystal! You're beautiful, smart, and driven! Wishing you the best in meeting someone who is better for you!
I like her she seems like someone you'd want to talk to and hang with
She has a good sense of humor she said she wants to drop the boom on him!!
Spend your energies on Loving your 5 kids......
AMEN....BEST COMMENT....
Exactly
Many women in her positions spend a lot of time & energy on their children yet also want adult relationships. It’s perfectly normal
@@msthrillingcommentary1343-- but it's NOT normal to spend as much time as she does chasing fake men on the internet, when she has FIVE kids in real life that need her time
@@msthrillingcommentary1343 but it is not normal to send money to a complete stranger.
I just don’t get it...she was going to marry someone without meeting him??🤦♀️ I’m glad she came to her senses and she is going to help someone else. God bless her and her family!
Usually 'coming to their senses' happens when they run out of money.
Like an arranged marriage haha
These Social Catfish folks are my heroes! Thank you for educating us all!
The hospital bed photo 🤣😂!! Hilarious!
Why not spend more time doing something nice instead of wasting time on a scammer.. 🤔
Why don't you be nice now
That hospital pic took me out 🤣
I laughed so hard at that. I did computer graphics for 10 years. I would've been fired for such a horrible job.
Nothing is going to stop him from doing this again.
I’m sorry but the photoshopped hospital picture is 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀! I’m happy she found out he’s a scam!
The phone beside him lmao 😂
it looks photoshopped glad she was not scammed
I thought the hospital picture was bad, then I read the “exxon mobile” letter and the hospital email (what is a heaven truck??) 😂😂😂
LOL the "heaven truck" got me 😂😂
Women with children need to be extra cautious about letting a man into their lives no matter what the distance. Children must protected from those who may hurt or take advantage of them. Mothers, wake up. I live near Seattle and a local woman met a man online. Second date he murdered her. Hurting women can go way beyond financial hardship with irreversible consequences
The woman murdered was a mother, too..
Yes yes yes. I honestly don't think women should introduce a man to her children, let alone bring him around, until she's so serious that she plans on marrying the man and staying with him until her kids are at least 18. iF you need a man at all. Preferably make it work with the father of the kids, if you can't, then try not to date anyone until your youngest hits 18. If you absolutely can't put your children first then at least be sure you'll marry the man and keep him around until they're 18. Kids are seriously so devastated by divorce and step parents. Even when things go great!! Yeah, I know it's hard. I'm doing my best to stay with the father of my children even though it's incredibly difficult. But my kids come first so I'm gonna find a way to keep the family together no matter what. If I can do it, most women can
@@elipotter369You said you told her you didn’t notice, that doesn’t really sound like immediate belief
@@elipotter369 I got it now! I’m glad she’s ok and you took her seriously!
Yeah don’t date single women. The man will never be a priority. It’s a lose lose situation.
She’s so pretty well spoken and educated. Wish her the best.
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she is not. i doubt she has better than a high school education. she is ok, but she is not well spoken.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer beholder haha
@@amysharp6 🤣🤣🤣 you're funny 🤣
not a single thing pretty about this woman. except she's pretty stupid. not educated either. middle school is generous.
OMG. I would like to say thank you very much showing this educated video.
Thats great that she invested her time in Social Catfish and found out the truth.
That "hospitality" letter sent from "doctor Charles" at "hospital" "at about the very late hours of 7pm" is utterly ridiculous. A 5 year old could have written a better fake letter. what is wrong with people?
What I love about this is how smart women are getting. Stay aware ladies(and gentlemen).
I retired from nursing, was around many doctors over the years & can't even imagine one of them sending emails/doing something like that. That's laughable.
But I do feel bad for this lady, she's beautiful & certainly never deserved that.
To be very truthful what young man is going to want a single mother with five kids??? no shade on you Crystal, but think about it. You can do just fine without a man or without this man you know in your heart he’s a scammer just run like hell
I completely agree! I'm a single mom, myself and ...yeah.
@@staceykersting705 ♥️
Exactly! Must be realistic
@@ellemorgan1331 "You have to believe you are a catch " But that is also how these scammers prey on people. They target your self esteem, vanity, ego, whatever you want to call it. I think in the end, we have to be realistic.
@@ellemorgan1331 It wasnt a date. They were discussing MARRIAGE!!!
That hospital picture is edited af
how can you send money to people you never met? they are paying for a dream that does not exhist
This dream does exist . Called nightmare 🤣
I "met" one of these scammers I only spoke to him because he said he was in Cypress (I though he ment Cypress Texas up the road) I would sent a brief note and get a long crazy note back. I was sharing it with friends and "trolling" him. But, seriously it'd exhausting. Just relentless non sense he had the whole b.s the dead wife, the motherless daughter, bring sent to Benin and warning of pirates I finally said "I think we want different things so good luck!" And got a hysterical note back about why yikes!
I honestly don’t understand woman of that age thinks young good looking guy is attracted to her ( no disrespect)
But us women should be smarter that this.
She is beautiful lady ,but women should not think with their heart but their God given head.
Sorry lady but there are not many guys are going to be interested in a mother with 5 kids. If ANY person starts asking for $$$$&. Run!!!
I'm not for this situation at all, but suppose some of her kids are grown?
Not sure where you live
This a different kind of heartbreak. Thanks to you all for educating people. Thank God I got out early enough.
Молодцы, что сделали такую передачу. У меня тоже был, и не один, опыт снакомств, только я никому денег не давала, хотя иной раз очень хотелось помочь.
In what universe does someone marry a person they have never met? And she has five children! She would marry a stranger and move him into her home?
In arranged marriages and desecrate situations
she needs the kendra G show
Really. What guy wants to move in with 5 kids he does not know And now she sends it won’t bother me Single mother giving away money and not helping her kids Delusional mother
"At least I'll have peace of mind knowing that he can't do this to anyone else..."
Are you out of your ever-loving mind, lady? He is probably scamming 50 other people RIGHT NOW! Just because you find out YOU are being scammed isn't going to stop him from scamming others one little bit! My mind can't even grasp how out of touch with reality these people are!
What a sweet lady. I hope/know she will eventually find a man she deserves and who deserves her.
That inheritance letter! 💀💀💀
Omg, the letter from "Dr. Charles" at the "hospitality" was so awful! I paused the video to read it, and I couldn't stop laughing.
Omg ROFLLMFAO!!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂 who reads that and goes yeah, this is legit?
It's soooo bad, laughable to the extreme!!
Any physician that would use such horrible grammer, spelling, and punctuation must have received their medical degree from Dr. Pepper. Lol.
I'm still laughing from that letter. 😂😂
Single mother with 5 kids...
Spending hours on the phone away from your kids.
She’s pretty looks like she could be Missy Elliot’s sister, I’m not sure how much she helped him with but it seems like she didn’t lose a whole lot by talking to this catfish so that’s great atleast she can move on and now and be more careful
Sadly real online is few and far between. Everyone lookin for real love . I hopefully we all are able to experience it even for a second I call that a blessing
He looks like he's young enough to be her son.
she's unrealistic
Nothing wrong with that. Many men are into older women.
I don't know any young man of another race into a single mother of 5 and older that's unrealistic
That's what I thought also...delusional lady!
@@toughntiny LOL, no they're not. Stay in your lane.
She is a smart lady, she has nothing to be embarrassed about.
sure she does. willing to marry someone she never talked to over video or phone, never met, that is a high level of stupid. she should be very embarrassed.
Clearly not if she fell for this
He doesn’t ask her “Will you marry me” he says in the text “I want to get married”. Does it really matter who he gets married to as long as it’s an American apparently. I wish this lady luck, she’s pretty, is not a dummy and deserves a good man if that’s what she really wants. She certainly doesn’t deserve a scammer who is lying.
At 3:33 you can see a line on his neck where they superimposed a different head on a neck that isn't even the same shade as his face.
Love that the scammers used the picture of Richard Hammond from Amazon Prime’s show The Grand Tour from his car accident in season one.
I'm happy for her, she didn't get deeper in emotional hell.
Kristina Lasic I met this young man on A dating called BBW ( I’m plus size and beautiful ) he’s about 14 years younger than me and he’s Nigerian (He’s lives there) he’s a musical artist there (it’s true) he has some videos-here on RUclips and on on Spotify, Amazon & ITunes. So we met at the end of September he’s a sweet and caring guy we did first video chat, phone chat & text everyday on WhatsApp. Since SARS began with protests back in October things were bad there so like s a couple of weeks in October he asked me for money to get food and petro ( gas)for the electric to work of course like five days after we me he fell in love with me (yup same ole line) Because he hasn’t been able to perform shows since all that craziness there the show he performed was mid September so I’m like wow he’s asking for like $300 so ok me being nice I sent him $200 thru an mobile app which they can receive cash in minutes they just go at an ATM. Now the thing is he didn’t disappear he was appreciative that I helped him. Now we are still talking everyday no disappearing acts yet so as of 2 weeks ago he need $1000.00 to go To Dubai for his music thing and that the people taking care of his music stuff will pay for hotel , food & transportation while there for 1 week so he tells me he’s to be paid $1 million and would give me back my money two weeks later(nope not giving dude no money) so he had to reschedule everything for this week as of Monday to go to Dubai so he gave some agent my number (All thru WhatsApp) btw my number is a Google number so this agent messaged me and left a voice note explaining the situation for my friend and both of them sent me receipts showing what needs to be paid for the flight there.
Ok so this agent works for this company called HM Global Connect which I did google and could not find any info on this company (Hmm a fake company idk) then somehow a few days asked if could help out with $600 or 700 instead of the $1000. So my friend is making feel guilty for not sending anymore money for food water etc and helping him with his flight ticket. I’m like I can’t send anything so he feels I’m being heartless because I didn’t answer a couple of calls or texts and he says he really want to be with me forever and it’s just crazy this situation because I really like him a lot had feelings for him almost 3 months now. But damn he asked for money. I do feel bad for him but I don’t know if his money or not. No with the sending mon thru the mobile app[ which is legit] so my friend doesn’t have my personal info at all just my name. He gave me his whole name and bank of course. So he left me bunches of text messages because the opportunity has gone but there is a chance he can redo this next mont because his Visa expires the end of next month. I’m still not sending any money so if we never speak again so be it. Now it’s crazy I was like his only chance to get money from so crazy right? I do see live videos of him in his home studio making music with his producer and sends me other videos later also. Well now needs money for food etc he told me a childhood friend has been helping him with some food and water not much tho. Again he’s not forcing me t help him but feels I should because we are together as couple ( I don’t see it that way) but I do care for him so idk I just don’t think I should be sending anymore money (just that one time) now don’t Know if I will ever get it back even tho he say he will eventually $200 is money don’t care if it’s a lot more. So yeah that’s my story.
@@deloresannwells If I needed money, I would never dream of asking a random stranger online for it. Maybe that is why these scams are so successful, most of us are naive and would never do these things ourselves and we can't believe that other people are capable of it. They say the average person that sends money to a scammer will lose several thousand dollars to them before they are either broke or wake up to what is happening.
@@sueknoll8567 Yeah I saw where these women and men too send thousand of dollars to those scammers just crazy
@@deloresannwells I really don't know what to say...may God be with you.
@Dennis Yeah ur right
They ask for a small amount. The victim begins to feel they have invested in the “relationship”, so they ignore red flags. This grows worse. Some are buying dreams and love. Some are greedy, believing the other person is rich. Some are just easy emotional prey. Some are spiritual prey. Some are just brain challenged.
Yup greedy!!! Believing their help of 50K will allow them to share the scammer's 50 million.
Well said. They attack from all angles and see who they swoop up.
All are brain challenged
I don’t know how the people are looking for a partner online I am afraid to purchase a pair of jeans…
There is only one way that it will stop and that’s if people stop sending them money.
They are not going to stop.
Once you are invited on hangouts 🚩🚩🚩🤦🏽♀️run sister🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️
WhatsApp also is a red flag
@@43hamiltontrina atleast on what’s up some get to be more real than on FB.. what’s up exposes their contact numbers though 😅in 2018 I met one, who called me his wife on a 2 days 😂😂😂charting ,we met on Twitter, the idiot told me he was a musician and a producer living in Florida, I quickly ask for his adress and told him we might be neighbors 😂😂😂he asked me if I could download Hangouts 😂😂I knew then he was a scammer from Africa😉 I went with the flow, he then told me that his ex wife had died and because their divorce wasn’t finalized they have now frozen all his accounts… He wanted to borrow $2500 from me,that was in day 5..I told him my husband don’t u worry just go to the bank with your identity they will help you😅😅he started to be less interested in me, I called him asking for money too😂😂he then block me
Exactly what I thought lol. They always want to move the convo to WhatsApp or hangouts.
I laughed when she said the photoshop on the hospital picture was good... I mean who poses like Derek Zoolander while laid up in the hospital
This is an honest and smart woman ..Hope she finds true love ..
I don't mean to be mean, but how can women be so desperate for a man? My husband passed away in 2013 and I've had scammers try to get me to send money. The last one a couple of weeks ago.
Lonely
I do to, I delete/ block anything to get them away from me..
My husband died 5 years ago, I'm 69 yrs old, I'm perfectly happy in my life.
Scammers take advantage of lonely people. Im single and lonely also, but will NEVER give anyone a dime for attention.
I have experienced feelings of loneliness in my life too. But last time I experienced it, I joined a local community college and met people like that. I would also consider getting a dog, as that forces you to get outside every day to the local dog park and you can chat to people there. If I wanted sex, then I could hire a male escort or just buy a vibrator. I could even chat to a stranger on an online forum. But I would *NEVER* send money to anyone - wouldn't even lend it to my sisters - let alone give it to someone I had never met.
Any native English speaker who took even a cursory glance at that email allegedly from "exxon mobile," aka all lowercase and misspelled version of ExxonMobil, should not have had to pay Social Catfish to decode this situation. It's so laughably bad that I can hardly believe it exists.
She's lovely, it's so sad when she said she felt stupid
Once I heard 'he got hit by a truck' I'm surprised by the host keeping a straight face without laughing
On the way to the airport no less
Well done Crystal. Not dumb as a post like many of the others on these videos. I strung one along for three weeks once. The bitcoin machines I went to kept being broken! Then I sent him/her an article about Nigerian Romance Scammers and asked their thoughts on it.
I think it's a great service that you do for people. Keep up the good work.
If they say I love you before you meet,how can anyone love something they've seen or touched. The accent is the give away. Crystal you are a brave woman. God is watching out for you. I've played their little games just to hear their sweet words as soon as they ask for money gift cards they get blocked after I give them a piece of my mind
Lady after my own heart! I'd also go so far as to mock them for their p*ss poor vocabulary before blocking them!
Get off online dating FOR GOOD! It's no good for YOU!!
What you NEED to do is ask your friends, co-workers or family members to introduce you to a nice man who has the same morals and standards you do!!
And some of them turn out to be irl scammers.
You can't trust anybody these days, at all. It's best to make a show of living on the edge of poverty.
I don't have friends! How can I meet someone?
@@1973onigiri Then ask your co- workers or family if they know someone you might like.
@@lindajackson2382 stupid advice
Shes NOT a single mom...shes widowed...theres a difference!!!!!
Crystal, you are a boss, thank you for sharing. Listening to you, I knew the silly scrammer was going to take an L.
I liked her too.
Good job Crystal!! You listened to your inner self and put a stop to this before it went too far!
Good luck to you! And try to enjoy being single while it lasts! When you meet the right person, you will know it 😊
Take care!
Sad real story. Fakes people taking advantages from ladies that really need affections. Something need to be done
now
Its true and am one of them ,victim of this romance scam and now I learn my lesson
They need to be locked up, I hope ALL of them get caught.. and put away for a long time.
The photoshop was terrible. I could already see something strange
If they tell you to talk by Hangouts... SCAMMER.
Revealing your experience helps 100%. But.. he will do it to others again, in fact they are probably talking to hundreds of others simultaneously as a group/team.
Thank you everyone for helping us.
How can you even consider marrying someone you have never met?!
Digital world for romance is crazy! How can people be in a relationship and never met face to face?
Crystal is awesome! She is a pretty lady and she sounds sharp to me. She said "I feel stupid" but she's so much smarter than these folks who say "I'm so smart, how did this happen to me, I want to prove to my family that this one is REAL..." Crystal owned her mistake and did some investigating herself using the Social Catfish tools. Of course, some of it is the editing/crafting of stories.
Well she is smarter than those dummies. They sit there and go "I'm very very very smart" "you know I don't suffer fools." People who talk like this are usually histrionic and very dramatic, not very sharp. She's certainly sharper than them and she looks good
I tried to contact Catfished and they were very rude and did not reply
Who else wants to see a video about Dave and how he founded Social Catfish?
I also want to know if someone scammed him and that's why he started social catfish
Would not feel surprised if it was due to someone close to him getting scammed. Maybe great aunt?
Their pattern are so many dramas, they are criminal.
Exactly....”I got hit on the way to the airport”, that’s such a red flag. Always some kind of “drama”, and that’s really the catalyst for a huge scam.
Yes! Dramas. If I believed he was for real, I'd think he just had some really bad karma. Some folks just have bad stuff happening. All. The. Time. I don't want any of that negativity in my life. I'd offer a prayer. Give him some words of comfort, and ghost. Guess this works for how to handle a scammer, too.
The pic in the hospital..😂😂😂his neck doesn’t match his head pic..omy
I'm talking to a girl named Candy Kimberly I think she's Russian or Serbia she's telling me that she lives in the US but she called me and said a few words, sounds extrang, plus she was acting like she can't hear me, I told her that she is scams and she denied.
I hope she finds peace in her life and can move on, find someone who is kind.
I don't want to sound mean - but I find it hard to imagine that you'll find young guys out there who are willing to marry a single mom with 5 children!
They all get in a wreck , on the way to the plane always bull crap wanting more money the roaches
I just posted the same comment. Haha
Ma'am 6:15 is all you need to finalize the decision to run far away. I mean they didn't even TRY to make that Photoshop chop work look authentic. 🥴😂🤣
Sad this happens everyday ! The world need something to help ! Please please please never send money to anyone you never met. No matter how much they love you . Love should be priceless
Never send money to people that you met.
Miss lake you nailed it
@Scamming Non Scammers Trust me model looking people will scam other model looking people. Ugly people will scam ugly people. 90% of your friends and family will "borrow" money from you and never return it with no intentions of returning it when they borrowed it, which is a form of scam. Bottom line is if you don't want to lose money never send money to anyone, that you do not mind losing. Only give or lend If it will not matter to you if you never hear from the person again.Often when you lend you think it will strengthen your family or friend relationship, but they will start to avoid you because they owe you and don't want to pay you.
Yet again nailing it Cathy
Should be more services out there to run back round checks on number names and more most are a rip-off sadly I feel bad for anyone that actually is in trouble and needs help . Sad to say scammer ruin online trust and people searching for love .
That picture of him in the hospital bed is fake fake fake. I was laughing hard.
I’m glad she peace of mind now.
I feel for her, I am glad she found out be was a scammer.
Crystal, you are a hero. I am sorry that you were put through this, but bless you for using your new wisdom to help others.
I. Am. Binging. This RUclips channel!!!!!
I'm so sorry for these people bc they lose money and also they really love this person - even though they don't exist
Also - I love the art work on the wall the starbursts looks like tissue paper or something I love it
I love how these scammers say how well off they are and then magically they somehow lose it all and get hit by cars and sh** lol they go way over the top which is where I have trouble understanding how ppl continue to believe this stuff.
Those scammers alway treat the lady like a baby
This 46 year old man looks like he's second year in college...LMAO!
How can you married to someone you hadn’t met or seen ? Crazy🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
So many of these stories start with, "My friend said I should try online dating."
Friends don't suggest that friends date online.
I mean… I had a lot of luck with online dating. Although I met my husband organically in real life. I think it’s really a matter of using common sense. If it’s too good to be true, it usually is.
Well nothing wrong with online dating but EVERYTHING wrong with sending money or agreeing to marry a man (or woman) without at least meeting them first.
They start with a friend had met her husband that way😂
They will if they know that you're completely hopeless. LOL. If anything if a friend suggests online dating, it means you're down bad as far as your options
False. Many people meet their partners online or through online events.