When I was married, it was Pedro. Turns out it should have been Pilar or Rosita or something, but whatever. 
Oh, and as to the OP: I hate practical jokes. Of any kind. No matter what. I think they’re all stupid and mean. Not to continue the pile-on, but there you are.
Doing this from one of your own accounts is really, really stupid. If your target has the brains Og gave to a turnip, he’ll track you down in no time.
I think Harborwolf hit on one of the parts of this that’s really dumb, involving a third party. Either get pictures from a girl willing to be in on the “joke” or don’t send pictures.
Tell us why you want to do this, and maybe we’ll have more sympathy.
If you did this to me because you thought it funny, I’d be a good sport and laugh along with you. Then I’d put you in a burlap sack and beat you with an aluminum softball bat until I was too tired to swing any more, because I’d think funny. I’d expect you to be a good sport and laugh along with me.
If you guys are close friends who have a history of this kind of thing, and you’re only going to do a few messages before the reveal and then just have a silly laugh, no, it’s not that bad. Kinda dumb, but not awful.
If this is just some guy you know, and you want to pull a fast one, complete with counterfeit pictures and possible meetings-it’s fucking immature, petty and mean.
Why don’t you send him emails pretending to be an intelligent guy? That would be just as unbelievable.
If you’re mad at him and trying to get him back for a mean prank he played on you, go for it.
If you’re just playing around, it’s an asshole thing to do and I would advise against it.
I’ve pulled this prank before, but I had a noble motive in mind. My best friend was married, his wife expecting a baby. He was “cheating” on his wife by having cyber-sex with women all across the country. When he started having phone sex with these women, I knew I had to do something to save his marriage. So, I joined AOL as “Elizabeth” and started up a torrid affair with my best friend. No, I didn’t enjoy it, it made me feel very oogy. When “Elizabeth” revealed that she lived in the same town, had found out his home address, wanted to meet him and started acting like a stalker, he decided that this “fun” wasn’t worth risking his marriage and he stopped the on-line romances. I never told him about my role in this. But I think if I did tell, he’d probably thank me as he seems rather happy with his family life, many years later.
All right, I am mad now. Raul has been cheating on me with not one, but three ladies? I am impressed with his stamina though! I usually left him worn out. Where does he find the time?
So count me in as another who has a “Raul.”
Whenever I suggest to my husband he should go out and play golf, or go the local pub without me because I don’t feel like going out, he always responds with, “Oh, I see, you want Raul to come over, that it? Just want me out of the house for a while to so you and your boy can get it on, I see.”
And in connection with the OP, a funny, not cruel, joke I played on my husband was one that I planned ahead of time. I knew he was going out without me, and would make the “Raul” jokes. So I had taken some cigarette butts from a friend, put them in an ashtray. Got out the good wine glasses filled them a quarter full, put lipstick on one, the other went next to the ashtray. Bought half a dozen red roses, put them off to the side. Put a Barry White CD in, ( I didn’t have any latin mood music) and left a trail of clothes to bedroom, ( a friend gave me some of her huband’s things). I dimmed the lights, but left it light enough so my husband could still see the scene, and jumped into bed when I heard his car. He came in, was silent for a moment, then laughed hysterically. He now refers to “Raul” as the teaser pony, hee hee.
His revenge on me was to take some of the clothes of my friend’s husband that I had borrowed for the joke, and bring then to the pub with him next time we went out. In front of everyone, he proclaimed, “John, I believe these are yours, next time you “visit” my wife, try not leave anything behind.” Again, everyone laughed.
These were funny because they were obvoiusly jokes. No one was hurt. If my husband thought I really might be fooling around, it would not be funny. If anyone at the bar would have really thought my friend’s husband and I were having an affair, not funny.
The difference with the OP is that that joke will most likely get someone’s hopes up, and then he will feel bad. And just remember, revenge is always part of jokes that cause someone to feel bad. He mostly do something meaner to you. Do you want to spend time second guessing everything that happens to you, waiting for his joke on you?
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What is the deal with imaginary Latin lovers named Raoul?
Raoul? How weird.
My imaginary cabana boy is named Sergei.
How can a cabana boy be Russian? That ain’t right. 
He’s my imaginary cabana boy – I can name him anything I want! :mad:
(Hm, maybe I should call him a dacha boy… 
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Sounds good to me!
I’ll take this thread as a ‘no this is a bad idea’. Not that i’m trying to justify myself or anything, but it really wasn’t my intention to laugh at the guy after I did it, he has the same sense of humor I do and i’d find it pretty funny if he did it to me. So perhaps my perception of how ‘normal people’ react to this stuff is askew.
Where are you people getting this? He’s secretly in love with the guy? Wesley will sing “He wanted to make it with a guy!” afterward? He’d deserve an ass kiciking after this?
Ive been involved in plenty of pranking, and it seems people on the outside are the only ones who ever get pissed off. The pranker and prankee get the joke. If its a good friend, you think he’d enjoy the joke after the fact, and you don’t take it too far, this would be fine. You know its not genius, but it could be pretty funny.
No way I’d give pictures of a real girl though, that could end up bad pretty quick.
I’m not going to do it, I don’t want to risk him taking it badly.
I think that’s the thing. If it’s a prank, then both people “get it” and you don’t need to think about it, you just do it. But if you’re nervous about it, to the point where you start a thread about it, that’s when it kind of implies some kind of nastier undertone to it. Like your conscience is bothering you. Hence the name-calling, the speculation, and the insults.
True in any case. That’s bringing in an “innocent” third party and turning the joke around to be on her, not on the buddy.
Where’d you get that idea. I was merely wondering if it was a rude thing to do. As I said, had it happened to me and been done by a friend with a similiar sense of humor i’d find it pretty funny. But I didn’t know if he’d take it the same way I would so I asked around, which was apparently a good idea in retrospect. The guy is pretty secure in himself, if he were desperate with women then yeah, it would be really cruel.
And for the record, before any of you all say ‘how would you feel if I/we did that to you’, (maybe some of you did, I didn’t really read the thread) that is different. You guys are malicious and want me to suffer so you can make a point to yourselves. I would’ve been playing a prank on a friend with the same warped sense of humor that I have. Different situations.
It wouldn’t be a girl in his class, that would be cruel too. If people assumed I was going to give him a pic of a girl in his class then laugh at him when he gets humiliated then yeah I can see why everyone hates me. I meant a picture of some anonymous girl he’d never see and said ‘IU girl’ because I figured I could get hundreds of pics of women from IU using various methods I have.
I can still be an out of it asshole though, just not as big an asshole as people seem to be assuming here.
For starters, I’m skeptical that “everyone hates you,” and if they do it’s not because of this thread. All the details we’re hearing now set up one situation; just saying “there’s this guy in my class” and “some girl from IU” and then getting all defensive and calling everyone “Babies” sets up an entirely different situation.
Didn’t sound like the guy was your friend, didn’t sound like you could tell whether the guy had enough self-confidence that when the joke played out he’d say, “Ah, you got me!” instead of “I thought she was the one I’m going to go kill myself.” It sounded like you were playing up some poor chump in your class as a big loser.
And seriously, know your audience, man: this is an internet message board populated with a lot of people who like to talk about science fiction, divulge personal sexual information, and read and/or answer trivial, pedantic questions about science and history. In other words: nerds. (Myself included). A lot of us are going to identify too much with the guy who got picked on for not having any luck in the dating department. If you wanted people to say “Do it! Haha, sucker!” then you should’ve asked on somethingawful.com or somewhere like that.