All the Ways You Can Cheat in 2022 Without Getting Caught

Creating an Instagram account is far too easy. You just need an email address — and even that can be fake! The most effortless spambot accounts are a “get more followers” type, because virtually everyone has a few actual free followers spambots following them already. They blend seamlessly into the crowd. Pop in a username with random numbers and dots, a bio that jumbles up English like “followers right now for you click now 2900 more free” and throw in an Insta logo profile pic and voila: DMing someone on the low has never been more inconspicuous.

As anyone with a Gmail account knows, Google Docs is a collaborative word processing system that is readily available to those with access to a web browser. So, essentially, everyone. You can create and edit documents seamlessly. Even better, multiple users can access a single document at the same time, witnessing people’s changes as they make them, and every change is saved automatically. It is like a live messaging platform through a more corporate, professional setting. That’s probably why no one would think to check their SO’s Google Drive for evidence of private conversations with a side piece. Unfortunately, though, some people are not just using Google Docs to cheat on tests, they are also using it to cheat in their relationships!

Just ask Twitch streamer Lily "LilyPichu" Ki who found out her boyfriend Albert “Sleightlymusical” Chang allegedly used Google Docs to cheat on her. The alleged person he cheated with (another Twitch streamer) leaked a screenshot of their document during a stream.

Speaking of an email address, it's a tale as old as time: cheaters using a different email address to hide messages from their significant other. But, others have mastered a foolproof method that doesn't leave a trace.

This time, however, you are creating a brand new email address for you and your boo, which both of you share the account information to (password, etc.) and communicate by saving your correspondence in the drafts. Once read, drafts can be deleted without having to check the "Trash" folder to make sure you actually deleted your message.

This just might be the tried-and-true method for shady communication. Why? Because all your messages are deleted by simply closing the chat. No one is the wiser.

Speaking of self-destructing images and videos, saving various “stock” photos for a later date is quickly becoming an invisibility cloak for suspecting SOs.

In other words, new-age cheaters are creating their own library of various “safe” images and videos to upload during times they aren’t with their SO and with someone else. Geotagging a fake location near your workplace or friend’s house is just another way to get away with it.

While there are spyware apps that will help you catch a cheater, there are also apps marketed specifically for privacy and secret-keeping — hot stops for infidelity. These include apps like Vaulty Stocks, which hides photos and videos inside a virtual vault disguised as a stock markets app, and Secret Calculator, which masks itself as a harmless calculator while hiding a variety of sexting pictures and restricted, password-protected files.

Every company is trying to optimize the convenience of cloud accounts for accessibility and convenience. While cloud sharing platforms, such as Dropbox, are typically used to store large file formats by freelance filmmakers or companies looking to contain their large presentation decks, other less-professional users are creating file folders filled with a magnitude of sexual images and documents with their other significant other.

Desyncing the application from your computer allows for only a user with the correct username and password to gain access.

Remote access equals no data kept. Despite TeamViewer typically being used by your I.T. department to see what is wonky with your system, did you know you can also potentially secretly gain access to your side piece’s computer sending messages and quirky image searches as if they are doing it themselves? Yeah, me neither.

Are forums still a thing? Reddit users would probably have my head for saying that, but seriously. Are they? Niche forums are alive and kicking. Logging into a random forum with an even more obscure username can conceal meetup messages and love codes for cheaters to hide in plain sight. The best part? Multiple users will likely reply to your conversations, so there is no telling how many wools you can pull over on someone.

Using a non-mainstream messaging app like Telegram or Confide, which makes it impossible to screenshot sneaky texts, is another method never to get caught.