Please be careful on hookup sites if you're a younger guy

Using a throwaway account for this. Some context here, I'm 19m, pretty masculine, and completely DL. One day, I got a message from a user in Sniffies who was supposedly in their mid-20's (I was using the site anonymously). He was quite muscular, and there seemed to be the same body in each photo (he also sent a unobscured "face pic" which I luckily did not reciprocate). After texting back and forth for a little while, we agreed to meet in a mall lot. and he would decide there if he wanted me to come to his place.

I arrive at the lot before he does, tell him where I am. Low and behold, the driver of the car that pulls up next to me is a middle-aged man who is at least in his 50's. I don't like old guys to begin with, and this man was very large and unattractive, and was also clearly trying to hide his face by avoiding eye contact. I immediately messaged him on the app that he was not who he said he was, and he still asked if he could suck it. I obviously said no and immediately started backing out.

This is when things really started getting scary. Right after I back out, he does the same thing, and I quickly jump to the worst case scenario that he's trying to follow me. Panicking, I starting driving erratically throughout the mall lots a few times, almost crashing my car in the process due to the amount of adrenaline in my body. After a few minutes, I was confident that I had lost him and started my way home. However, as I am driving on a main road, his car appears in front of me (he must've exited the lot before I did, which resulted in me catching up to him). He was driving quite slow, and although I couldn't see well into his car it looked as if he kept on glancing into his rearview mirror. I was approaching a turn I had to make, so I changed lanes behind a car that was also performing the same lane change in front of me. Once he sees this however, his car also immediately moves into the turning lane right before the intersection. Seeing this, I changed lanes back into the original lane right before he gets to the turn, and quickly speed up before he can to the same thing. I didn't look to confirm if it was him or not, and sure as hell didn't want to give him the same opportunity to confirm if it was me. After this, I took the backroads home, and thankfully arrived safely.

Overall, I'm really pissed at myself that I allowed this situation to happen and wasn't able to see through his scheme sooner. I'm just glad to have made it home safely, although I'm disappointed I couldn't beat the shit out of that guy first. If you're a young dude on any site such as sniffies or grindr, please be careful, and always approach profiles such as the one in this story with scrutiny. If someone's profile looks too good to be true, it probably is.