EXCLUSIVE I fell head over heels for an attractive man I met online...
only to discover his vile catfishing secret that blew my life apart By Lillian Gissen For Dailymail.Com Published: 19:02 BST, 28 May 2024 | Updated: 19:21 BST, 28 May 2024 e-mail 50 View comments A woman who fell in love with a charming and attractive man online has opened up about the horrifying secret that blew their relationship apart - and led her to uncover a sinister web of lies that connected a group of victims across the country. Back in 2011, Anna Akbari, a sociologist who now lives in California but was residing in New York City at the time, connected with a man named Ethan Schumann on a dating site, and immediately, it felt like love at first sight.
Sparks flew right away, with the two messaging back and fourth for hours on end; but when it came time for them to meet in person, Ethan would make a slew of excuses and always cancel. He would suddenly have to travel for work, or the bad weather made it impossible for him to get into Manhattan from New Jersey where he claimed to live. But when Anna started to suspect something was up, Ethan then told her that he was secretly suffering from cancer and that he had really been avoiding getting together didn't want her to see him until his treatment was over.
A woman who found out that the man she was head over heels with was actually a lady the entire time has revealed how she and the other victims exposed the elaborate catfish Anna Akbari, a sociologi.