I was Manti Teo'ed or Catfished My Sophomore Year at Notre Dame
I had a phone in my room...we all did because they made it very easy for you. One night I came in and the phone was ringing...it was a woman who identified herself as a student at St. Mary's College who just wanted someone to talk to...and me, being young and very naive, thought she was serious...she told me she had leukemia, and she had just gone out for a walk for a long evening, was feeling lonely, and felt she could talk to a stranger better than someone she knew. Anyway, she roped me into her story, and for the next few weeks she called often just to talk...she said she originally called my number just dialing any random number. Yeah, I believed that, too. Anyway, it never got to a serious attachment, I just thought she was lonely and needed someone to talk to in her situation...I finally mentioned this to someone else (I guess I didn't for a while because I thought it was kind of weird) and he said, told me who she was and that her name wasn't who she said she was, but a single mother living in South Bend who just wanted to f*ck Notre Dame guys and had been pulling this stunt for a few years now. She was barking up the wrong tree obviously, and being embarrassed, I called her and confronted her. She said something like, "Wouldn't it be terrible if someone did what you say I'm doing?" and stuff like that, but never admitted or denied her hoax. I ended the conversation saying I felt sorry for her, and hung up. I never heard from her again.
Anyway, not nearly as dramatic or as involved as Manti's, but I can see how this whole thing could have started since there are people out there who want to lie and deceive you for reasons known to themselves, and I fell for something similiar. Well, I can see how Manti's started...can't see how it went on for so long, though.
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