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Pretty much anyone engaging online with people they don’t know in real life is potentially at risk for catfish scams — though single people on the quest for love are particularly vulnerable.
There are many reasons people resort to catfishing, but the most common reason is a lack of confidence, according to the Cybersmile Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital well-being.
Romance scammers create personal profiles using stolen photographs of attractive people for the purpose of asking others to contact them. This is often known as catfishing. Often photos of unknown actresses or models will be used to lure the victim into believing they are talking to that person.
Similarly to a traditional Carnival celebration involving attendees masking their faces, the Internet allows catfishers to mask their true identities.. Catfishing refers to the creation of a fictitious online persona, or fake identity (typically on social networking platforms), with the intent of deception, [1] usually to mislead a victim into an online romantic relationship or to commit ...
The company initially started as a blog to educate people about online scams and catfishing. Today, Social Catfish is a multifaceted investigation tool with the option to run criminal background checks. [6] [3] Social Catfish lists names of jurisdictions (Incorporated cities, Census-designated places) instead of major US city neighborhoods.
Alexander McCartney has been sentenced to prison in the "U.K.'s largest catfishing case" after being accused of preying on thousands of victims online.
Hunting The Catfish Crime Gang is a BBC Three television documentary. The programme is presented by James Blake and follows his investigation into a criminal network that stole his identity and used it for an online catfishing scam. During the investigation, the programme revealed that hundreds of fake social media profiles had been set up ...
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