A woman was catfished by an older man using a model's photos and what happened
next will shock you! Welcome back to What's Trending, I'm Ava Gordy. Be sure to
LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE for more. 33-year-old Emma Perrier
joined a dating app called Zoosk after a very bad breakup in 2015. She then
received a private message from 34-year-old Ronnie Scicluna, but in order to see
the message she would have to pay the $35 subscription fee. Her and her twin
sister marveled at his good looks and she decided she would pay. The message
revealed to say, "You look beautiful." Thanks so much, Ronnie. Now you guys know
where this is headed, 'cuz I already told you that she got catfished, but I'm still
gonna read some of the messages that they had back and forth. "You could easily
have picked someone else," Ronnie proclaimed. "No. You're the only one
I wanted to talk to... I paid because of you," Emma poetically
replied. "As soon as I saw your picture I wanted you," Ronny declared. "Makes me happy
to know that," Emma concluded. Love. Romance. Hate to break it to you Emma, but he
wanted you because he was a 53-year-old divorcee named Alan Stanley. He admitted
to using photos of a male model that he found on Google and said, "I'm
always nervous about posting personal images of myself. I just don't like
pictures of me. It goes back a long way, to be honest." Okay, back to Emma who asked
that the two meet in person. Reasonable request considering that he was only a
hundred miles away. I mean that's far, but it's not that far. She was even willing
to do all the traveling herself and free up her schedule for his schedule. They
had even professed their love for each other. Not to say that's a mistake, but
that's a mistake. To haven't even video chatted yet... Four months later and she's
told everybody in her life about Ronnie, but Ronnie seemed to think that his lies
were not that bad. He said, "Everything I told her about me, apart
from who I was and the age, was true." Yeah, totally. Everything was true except who I
am as person, but everything else is true!
Everything about what I said to her was true, except everything that I said to her 'cuz I lied the
whole time. By spring, it had been six months and friends and family grew concerned. She
eventually downloaded a reverse image app and said, "Believe me I was
scared to use it for the first time," and she should have been scared because what
she found was Turkish model / actor Adem Guzel. It wasn't a guy named Ronnie.
Along with an official Twitter page, she found his model management website and
his Facebook. Uh-oh! Emma immediately hit up Ronnie to ask what the heck was
going on and you won't believe what Ronnie (aka Alan) said. Alan (aka Ronnie)
said that those were his modeling photos and that he used a fake name when he
used to model back in the day. Sure. Alright. Yep. Cool. But bruh it kept
going, so she must have believed him. I don't know how, but okay. But then in
August, after a year of chatting, he accidentally sent her an email from his
personal email address. Rookie move, bruh. And now Emma is looking up Alan
Stanley thinking, "What the f*ck? How many names does this dude have?" She typed his email
address into Google, and boom she found all of his official pages, including what he
looks like! So he was caught and she talked with him through all of his
explanations and apologies, and she even wanted to meet him in person before she
realized that that might be dangerous, 'cuz like, who is this at this point? Oh my
God. Finally. We are at the good part. Thank you for sticking with me. Here we
go. In September 2016, she went back to Adem's Facebook that she found and sent
him this message. "Hello, Adam. We don't know each
other, but a year ago I met a guy online and that man is using your picture and
pretends he is you under another name. I wasn't sure if getting in touch with you
was a good idea, but I needed you to know. Kind regards, Emma." They wrote to each
other for a bit before Adem suggested that they hop on a video call.
There you go. That's a normal person! Willing to hop on a video call right off
the bat. They texted back and forth for a while until Adam sadly moved to a small
town where cell reception was trash... and they stopped talking. And then in
November Alan Stanley and Emma finally met in
person. While Alan considered the night a date, Emma considered it closure, but
interestingly enough they did meet several more times. I think it was just
Emma feeling like she had a real connection
to this person, and Alan feeling like he was obsessed with her probably... But they
had reached a point of contention when her focus seemed to be solely on finding
Adem again. I could understand why. He's beautiful. And she did! In January of 2017,
Adem and Emma reignited their communication. And then in April, he came
to meet her in London and the spark was undeniable. Adem said he wasn't religious,
but it felt like fate, and they've been together ever since. I don't know what
this is.I will stop. "My catfish became Cupid, and now we're living
happily ever after," Emma said. This is so beautiful, truly. And wow! This is almost exactly
like that episode of Andy Daly's, Review. "I was now in the trickiest part of
catfishing where you have to find the handsome man whose picture you used in
your fake profile and persuade him to Skype with your ex-wife." "There he is." And
then, just a side note, his ex-wife and that beautiful man's photos that he used,
they ended up getting together, so it's almost exactly the same. Anyway, back to
Emma again. After their story was first published, one of Alan Stanley's other
victims reached out to Emma and was like, "Bruh he's been doing this to me for like
years." Even Alan is pleased with the couple. He said, "I think it's brilliant
Emma and Adem have met. It's almost like fate." With all this talk of fate I gotta
know, do you guys believe in fate? Or have you ever been catfished? Let me know in
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