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21 Sob Stories that Were Actually Fake

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My friend’s crazy ex said she had cancer, diabetes from asthma, and told us using fakes accounts that she had gone missing.

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I was with my ex at the time, but didn’t find out about this until later on after he had already gotten away with it. He made a gofundme for our “sick cat with cancer” when we fell on hard times and needed some cash. People donated almost $500. I wondered where this had suddenly come from, but he told me he had just gotten a delayed payment on a freelance programming job he was doing. A mutual friend of ours asked me a few months later how the cat was doing, and I said just fine. He was pretty confused, and explained to me the post he had seen my ex’s gofundme post on facebook (which I and my ex’s family members were conveniently excluded from) and donated a few hundred to help with the medical bills for our cat. Once we both realized we’d been duped, there was a lot of bad feeling all around. Left the guy a few months later

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A guy in high school told me he found his dead dismembered nephew, but it was just a ruse to get attention.

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A person who is now an acquaintance but used to be a close friend (she was supposed to be one of my bridesmaids) tended to make a big deal out of, well, everything – as long as it got her attention. She broke up w/a guy that was the love of her life, it was the most dramatic breakup ever, she’ll never love again, and so on. Unfortunately, tragedy struck a couple months before my wedding. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor, had to quit work, couldn’t be in my wedding, and basically went underground while she went through treatment. I moved to California shortly after I got married, so didn’t see her for a few years. When we met for after so long, she confessed: there was never any brain tumor. She was just under stress at work and wanted to go on paid leave.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.