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Tamaya
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16 Jun 2025, 10:26 am

kokopelli wrote:

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I think Blitzkrieg means someone on a site like Facebook might save someone else's photos that they posted on their timeline on to their phone then use that photo as their profile picture on a dating site.

I'm not sure if photos like that are able to be found on Google?

You might have a point. I did several image searches for my nephew that appeared on Facebook and didn't find them. I did see some photos on Facebook, though, so it isn't absolute.

That said, you don't know if you'll find it until you look. If it is there but nobody looks, then don't expect a lot of sympathy.

But how would you know what words to use in the search bar to find the photo if it's from another person's Facebook page? It's very easy to hold your finger down on someone else's photo on Facebook and a menu comes up with the option to save it to your phone. Unless there's a way of getting a web address from the profile picture on the dating site and then the Facebook page comes up? But even then the person's Facebook page who they stole it from could be set on private so you couldn't view it or something maybe. I'm not very technical savvy so ignore me if I'm wrong lol.

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16 Jun 2025, 10:27 am

blitzkrieg wrote:

Cornflake wrote:

This:

blitzkrieg wrote:

They might have been on social networks and have stolen other people's photos, for later usage in scams.

contradicts this:

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Such photos wouldn't be typically be revealed by a Google search.

If scammers were able to steal other people's photos then Google would be able to use them in an image search.
IOW if they're publically accessible for stealing they're publically accessible to Google and will show up in searches.

See my response to Tamaya.

I meant the stealing could be done privately whilst a scammer was on the friends list of someone on social media who had their photos set to be 'friends only' (not available to people who aren't their friends on social media or on a Google search).

Yes that's what I was trying to say.

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16 Jun 2025, 10:37 am

blitzkrieg wrote:

A private photo on a social media website wouldn't show up in a Google search, but a scammer could have been on the friends list of someone who had their photos set to private, but as a friend would have access to those photos/could download them, which non-friends cannot.

Ah, gotcha. I was going by publically accessible photos only.
I've never used Faecesbook.

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16 Jun 2025, 10:55 am

Cornflake wrote:

blitzkrieg wrote:

Ah, gotcha. I was going by publically accessible photos only.
I've never used Faecesbook.

You are not missing anything. The whole thing is a privacy minefield as you can imagine.

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16 Jun 2025, 3:31 pm

Tamaya wrote:

But how would you know what words to use in the search bar to find the photo if it's from another person's Facebook page?

In Google Image Search, there is the ability to drag and drop or to upload a photo and search on that photo. It can be quite useful.

At https://images.google.com/, notice that in the search box on the far right there is an icon that kind of resembles a camera. If you hover the cursor over it, you should see "Search by Image".

It gives you three options:
1) "Drag an image here"
2) "Upload a file"
3) "Paste image link"

It uses the picture you provide as the search criteria, not some typed in search terms.

But yeah. If it is on a private Facebook page, you might not find it. It doesn't hurt to try, though. It's really quite easy to do and shouldn't take long at all to do. It's so simple that there is no reason not to do it.

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20 Jun 2025, 3:46 am

Can you guys please STOP IT? He is real.

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20 Jun 2025, 3:56 am

No problem.

Just be careful.

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20 Jun 2025, 8:06 am

@Kitty4670
Maestra Kitty,

I am happy for you even tough it may still seem unclear for you, the situation you and him find yourselves in.

You seem like a person who is aware of the dangers and sensibilities out and about in our world, you even scraped together your courage to come ask for advice in the WP fora. I'm sure you'll land on your feet.

If you're still unsure on how you feel, perhaps a tiny bit of advice I gave to my daughters as well: spend a day together, a full day where the mission of the 2 of you is to:
a. early in the day get together to agree on an activity
b. plan it together
c. go shopping or do whatever prep. required to be able to do the activity together.
d. Do the activity together.
e. openly discuss how it went with each other.

that will give you a task to accomplish together and evaluate how the puzzle pieces of both of your personalities fit together... or not.

kind regards,
Kada

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20 Jun 2025, 2:56 pm

Kitty4670 wrote:

Can you guys please STOP IT? He is real.

Sorry, we went a bit off-topic.

You know him better than we do, so I'll take your word for it. I hope things work out for you both.

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20 Jun 2025, 5:19 pm

Kitty4670 wrote:

Can you guys please STOP IT? He is real.

Then explain your post from a couple of pages back:

Kitty4670 wrote:

I'm searching on catfish.com

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20 Jun 2025, 5:23 pm

ChicagoLiz wrote:

Kitty4670 wrote:

I'm searching on catfish.com

That site does seem to be rather fishy.

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30 Jun 2025, 12:04 am

I found out he a fake, I looked him up on Google with a pic, I ended up on Pinterest, somehow, I found two different names, there are alot of pics of the real doctor, they are alot very handsome doctors on there. Why am I talking to a fake doctor? I wasn't even looking for a doctor, he found me, I feel sooooooooo stupid!

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30 Jun 2025, 1:16 am

Kitty4670 wrote:

Wanting to be loved is never stupid, pretending to be a doctor to catfish others is always stupid. I'm sorry he ended up being fake, but happy you found out the truth before it got too late.

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30 Jun 2025, 2:33 am

Kitty4670 wrote:

Oh my...I am SO sorry you got catfished & tricked @Kitty4670!! !

My David is the only real one...

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30 Jun 2025, 2:34 am

Kitty4670 wrote:

Even though some of us were suspicious of this, we are still saddened with the way it turned out for you.

We sincerely hope you find a man worthy of you some time in the future.

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30 Jun 2025, 3:04 am

Can you stop trying to date a doctor or a soldier via these apps for a change? Like stop going Wooed every time a "doctor/soldier" messages you there? Just block them.

Try a plumber next time, or an accountant, or anything else ...really nothing wrong with some other careers.

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