Can you be Catfished on match com?

On Match.com, you answer questions about yourself (there can be 400 of them) which allows you, as well as other members, to search for people with similar interests. A catfish or scammer on Match.com will create a fake profile to either trick you into thinking theyre someone else, steal money… or both.

What are the odds of being Catfished?

Nearly one out of four women (23 percent) admitted that they had perpetrated catfishing in a recent study that sampled 917 women (Mosley et al., 2020). Does this surprise you? The percentage was even higher in their sample of 190 men, with one in three men (38 percent) confessing that they had perpetrated catfishing.