Heard of stories like this, SpaceyUFO
Spacey, I heard of stories like that man who was depressed and met a woman from USA and lied about weight. Hey, I even myself experienced this as well.
Even before the days of online back in early 1990s, personal ads were in national publications and one of them a newspaper styled and there was a photo of the month and saw how beautiful she was and I read about her and she's deaf! I gasped and then got in touch with her. Later, I invited her to come to my hometown. She wanted to come so I said ok, she came.. when I got to the airport, I looked hard for her and I had to use my voice to ask a lady where this deaf woman and showed her picture. I did not realize I was talking to her! She said thats her! I gasped hard! She looked so different than the photo.
Well, we didnt work out because of level of communication wasnt well between us. That was a good excuse of mine. I told myself that day at the airport after meeting her for first time, I would be so strict on the situation with photographs!
Well, the reason was I learned a lesson about the type of photograph. It was a studio touchup photograph and heavy makeup on. She normally does not wear it at all.
After that, I made a requirement that a photograph online has to be a regular 3X5 picture, not a studio, and must have at least 3 photographs--a full person, a close up, and another close up. I preferred one indoors and one outdoors, not a webcam since they do not produce well.
But after my experience with the long distance relationship from Miami and from CT, I stopped and focused on local ones in 2002 to Spring 2004. Then I stopped completely since I was sick and tired of the dating scene treated me badly until I met someone nice and sweet in April 2004. That ended it all.