Woman Realized She Was Being Catfished After Receiving ‘Green’ Texts: Video

A woman quickly realized she was being catfished by one of her Bumble matches after receiving “green” text messages from him, according to her now-viral video.

The video was posted to TikTok on January 29 by Jocelyn (@jjustjocelyn), who wrote: “As if dating wasn’t hard enough already.” So far, the post has received over 1 million views and thousands of comments that revealed catfishing to be a prevalent problem in the online dating landscape.

At the beginning of her video, Jocelyn tells viewers that she recently matched with a “good looking” guy on Bumble named Myles. After exchanging a few messages, Jocelyn gave Myles her phone number so that they could arrange dinner plans. But when he reached out, Jocelyn was shocked to see that his messages were green.

“What does green mean? It means he does not have an iPhone,” said Jocelyn, who further explained that Myles can be seen wearing an Apple Watch in the photos on his dating profile.

“So I do a reverse image search of some of the pictures that he used on his profile and what do we have here? An Instagram model from New York,” she said, stepping aside to reveal the Instagram profile of someone named Ron. “I live in Ontario.”

Jocelyn ended her video by telling women to “stay woke” and “stay alert.”

According to Bustle, around 10 percent of all online dating profiles are fake.

“A fake profile is anywhere the person is misrepresenting their true identity,” explained dating and relationship expert, Jonathan Bennett. He added that these profiles are created for various reasons, including “catfishing for attention, marketing products, or even scamming people out of money.”

To avoid falling for a scam, Bennett advised online daters to pay special attention to a person’s profile photos.

“If a person seems too perfect, it’s a red flag you could be dealing with a fake,” he said.

Film and television producer Bernard Parham, who worked on the MTV series Catfish, told Teen Vogue that professionally-shot photos “should raise your suspicion.”

“Regular folks tend to use candids taken by their friends and family on their profiles,” he said.

Parham also said that a catfish will “happily waste copious amounts of your time,” so he advised anyone who might be feeling “off” about a match to push for a video call before agreeing to meet up.

“If they won’t even video chat, that’s another red flag, and they’re probably not the person they’ve been representing themselves as on dating sites or a Facebook profile,” said Teen Vogue.

Jocelyn’s commenters weren’t overly shocked to hear that she’d encountered a catfish. In fact, many shared that they, too, have been catfished.

“Oof. I had this happen to me years ago when I was on a dating app. Never went out with the catfish, but found the IG model he stole from. SMH,” wrote Jessica Tate.

“It’s happened several times. If the guy is really good looking that is definitely means something is up,” added ObjetdartBflo.