A DISGUSTED woman has taken to social media to warn others to watch out for an alleged catfish on dating sites – who claimed his wife had died in childbirth.
Annabelle Allan from Bradford, West Yorkshire had been spending her Saturday evening perusing dating app Tinder when she matched with a man named Brad last week.
The man gained Annabelle’s trust by confiding in her about a variety of allegedly heartbreaking incidents including his mother being diagnosed with cancer and his child’s mother dying.
Whilst sceptical, Annabelle was left in no doubt that the man was telling lies after the pair shared a phone call which left things not adding up.
The Yorkshire lass has now shared a video to social media warning other girls who might match with ‘Brad’ to be weary of the alleged fraudster.
Annabelle begins her video sharing the warning as she begins: “Girls, if you get a match with this Tinder profile–.”
A backdrop photo of a man can be seen behind Annabelle as she continues: “Full time dad, property developer, name’s Brad, do not accept. Do not give him your number.
“It isn’t the one in this picture.”
The photo then changes to a man sitting cross-legged on a beach before changing to a photo of a Lamborghini sports car.
Annabelle explains: “This is apparently his car and he was driving it in Astor this morning and everyone was looking at him as he pulled in with his six week-old daughter who he only found out about two weeks before he had her.”
She rolls her eyes as she continues: “It was from a one-night stand. The mother of the child – a little girl – died of a hemorrhage while just after birth.
“So, now he’s a full-time dad with this six-week-old little girl.”
The camera cuts to an online advert for a Lamborghini on car site Autotrader which shows the exact same image as the one Brad used.
Annabelle called out her online beau, asking: “Just started to noseying [sic] at cars on Auto Trader to look at khaki-coloured urus and stuff because I felt like it.”
The man can be seen replying: “Yeah, you’re correct. Those are two I’ve agreed finance on and are being delivered, but due to being in different locations, they must be delivered.
“Well, lease, not finance.”
Annabelle, hot on the trail, then replies: “Okay but you’ve said you’ve been driving the urus today to Asda.”
However, the man messages back: “And until the paperwork goes through, they will stay on there.
“I said I drive my urus to Asda, yeah. I didn’t say it was that one because if you’ll recall, I said I fixed my urus that I bought broken.”
Unwilling to confess to the lies that he has allegedly told, the man’s full resume of deceit comes to light as Annabelle faces the camera.
She says: “His mum also died of breast cancer in January and his grandad just died within the last two months as well.”
Visibly repulsed, she adds: “I don’t know why you’d joke about your mum dying of breast cancer or a child being left motherless due to a hemorrhage.”
Annabelle claims that she has now spoken to the man whose photos have been used to scam Tinder users.
She added that the man does not have a daughter and has no idea who is posing as him online.
She added the final warning: “Stay away, girls. Stay away and report.”
Annabell took to social media on Sunday to share the footage, writing: “Sick, sick human, whoever is behind this.”
The post received over thousands of likes and comments as many were horrified by the allegedly fake stories.
One person wrote: “I’m sorry but how can people still be getting catfished these days? There’s more than enough ways to find out who somebody is.”
Another said: “Wait. Wait. Wait. The ‘mum’ was just leaving foster care when she died? So, dude thinks he knocked up a teenager at 30 and he’s proud of that.”
Brad Steer who has claimed to be the real man in the photos commented: “I can confirm this isn’t me.”
Annabell added in the comments: “I’m sickened that people exist who did this and make up vile stories like that and prey on women.”
A spokesperson for Tinder said: “Catfishing is a violation of our Community Guidelines and Terms of Use, and members who are discovered catfishing are removed from our platform.
“If someone believes they are being impersonated on Tinder, they should contact our support team with relevant details here.
“From there, our team will promptly search for and remove any matching profile.
“We encourage our users to look for the ‘blue tick’, which indicates that the user’s age and likeness have been verified through our Photo and ID Verification programmes.
“Additionally, all users can request that their match be verified before messaging.”
