When considering dating someone online, our minds often gravitate towards the widely-used dating apps and social media platforms that enable us to connect with potential partners and cultivate a romantic relationship. However, some individuals may associate online dating with the risk of encountering fraudulent profiles and catfishing, which can dissuade them from pursuing online dating altogether.<\/p>\n
We also think that celebrities would never step foot onto the online dating platform, since most celebrities only ever date other celebrities since they can relate more with someone who lives the same lifestyle as them. However, there was one celebrity who fell for one of these catfishing schemes.<\/p>\n
R. Prophet<\/a> is an American rapper who used to be a part of the group Nappy Roots. He had just started using social media at the time of this catfishing incident, and as a result, barely had any experience being on social media platforms. This made him an easy target for scammers and catfishes to try to talk to him since he was single, ready to mingle, and not educated about the dangers of social media.<\/p>\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/My-Post-17.jpg” panorama=”off” imgwidth=”100%” offset=”100%” align=”center” lightbox=”on” captionsrc=”custom” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n R. Prophet’s team encouraged the rapper to engage with his audience on his social media profiles and to become as active as possible. He was following his fans left and right and came across a blue-eyed beauty named Trinity. He saw that she had 1,600 friends on Facebook and decided to add her.<\/p>\n They hit it off on Facebook Messenger immediately, and R. Prophet thought that they had made that instant connection. He said that she even helped him with some personal issues he was dealing with.<\/p>\n However, his team and he couldn’t ignore the major red flag that was presented to him during his relationship with Trinity: They didn’t video chat or meet in person once.<\/p>\n MTV’s show Catfish uncovered that the pictures used for Trinity’s profile actually belonged to Chris Brown’s ex-girlfriend Jasmine Sanders who happened to be a model. She reached out to R. Prophet saying how sorry she was for him, but that it wasn’t her that sent those messages.<\/p>\n After digging deeper, they found out that Trinity’s profile actually belonged to a woman named Crystal. R. Prophet agreed to meet with Crystal at a park and she explained how she was the mastermind behind the profile.<\/p>\n R. Prophet claims that he was embarrassed and felt deceived after learning that he wasn’t talking to the woman he thought he was. However, Crystal claims that she was herself the entire time while talking to R. Prophet and just the pictures were fake to lure him in.<\/p>\n She apologized to R. Prophet for luring him into her scheme, and he told her that even though it wasn’t cool that she did it that he couldn’t deny the unbreakable bond they had. They still keep in touch to this day and remain really good friends.<\/p>\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/My-Post-19.jpg” panorama=”off” imgwidth=”100%” offset=”100%” align=”center” lightbox=”on” captionsrc=”custom” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n Even though Crystal was not a threat to him and they remain friends to this day, there are many catfish that only have bad intentions toward their victims. Whether it’s money, inappropriate images, or trying to harm you in any way many of these catfish can be bad news.<\/p>\n Here are some signs that you are talking to a catfish online:<\/strong><\/p>\n If you feel like you’ve been catfished, you can reverse search<\/a> their information with Social Catfish<\/a> to see if everything they told you matches up to who they really are. You can reverse search names, images, email addresses, usernames from social media profiles, and phone numbers of the person you are talking to in order to verify their identity.<\/p>\nR. Prophet Meets Trinity<\/h3>\n
How They Found Out Trinity Was a Catfish<\/h3>\n
R. Prophet Had Insanely Good Luck<\/h3>\n
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