Man’s date deceives him with photos from unexpected source

NEW YORK: Just when you think you’ve heard every bizarre dating story under the sun, a new one comes along to make your mind boggle. This particular one taps into every online/app dater’s fear that their “match” may not actually look like their photos. Of course, we all put the best possible version of ourselves out there on the likes of Tinder, but one man’s suspicions that he’d been deceived turned out to be true – in the most unexpected and bizarre way. “I’m on Tinder and I see a cute chick so I swipe right,” the man explains on Reddit. “In two of her pics it’s clear she has a twin. Cool. Not identical, but close enough. They were both above the shoulder shots. We start talking and she’s ramping up to be perfect, you know how crushes are yadda yadda.” The pair quickly arranged their first date, with the man getting there early and waiting outside. “She shows up much larger than in her pics, but she’s still cute and I’m not a picky man.” But something made the man suspicious. So he decided to do a little digging. “I check Facebook and the pictures she had used were from her sister’s profile. The pics were not fully public but one was her profile pic and another one was visible on there so I’m guessing the rest are hers too.” “And I’m not sure how to feel now. On one hand, I like her. On the other, she’s using her sisters pics to get dates and that’s… weird.” Though many of his friends and colleagues felt that he was fat shaming the woman, the man said: “The end result is that you got catfished. Doesn’t really matter that it’s her twin, she’s using pictures of someone that isn’t her to get dates.” As it turns out, there isn’t going to be a second date. The man later wrote: “I ended up texting her after work: ‘Hey I went to add you on Facebook and your sister’s profile popped up. What’s going on?’ with a screenshot of her sister’s profile (since she had used her sis’s profile pic on Tinder.) “And she blocked me. Without explaining anything. So I guess that decides that.” (Agencies)