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  2. What is catfishing and what can you do if you are ... - AOL

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    Why do people catfish? 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 ...

  3. What is kittenfishing? Experts reveal the downside to the ...

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    In catfishing, a person online pretends to be someone totally different from who they really are,” she says. “Kittenfishing is when a person online presents themselves in subtly misleading, if ...

  4. Romance Scams: FBI, Zelle and Catfishing Expert Nev ... - AOL

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    Catfishing and Scam Awareness,” a recent report from peer-to-peer payment platform Zelle, found that significantly more consumers in Q3 2022 reported being the victim of a “catfish” or ...

  5. Catfishing - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Sadfishing - Wikipedia

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    Sadfishing can be caused by many things, the main reason being that someone doesn't get enough attention, and/or has low self-respect.This is proven by the fact that people sadfishing are looking for compliments: very close to narcissistic behaviour, but with desire for compliments from other people for self-satisfaction.

  7. Career catfishing - Wikipedia

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    Career catfishing refers to the practice of new employees deliberately not showing up for work on their first official day of employment, which emerged in the mid-2020s. The term is derived from catfishing , which refers to creating a fake identity or online persona with the intent of deception.

  8. 7 Ways To Spot Catfishing Scams Before They Cost You ... - AOL

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    The term was dubbed in the 2010 documentary "Catfish" which explored the journey of a young man who was lied to by a... 7 Ways To Spot Catfishing Scams Before They Cost You Big Money Skip to main ...

  9. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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    Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (2011) Indian Hindi-language film - a romantic comedy which revolves around a group of women teaming up to pull an elaborate con on the con artist Ricky Bahl who has conned them. Nine Perfect Strangers (2018) the novel and miniseries, one of the characters has a mental breakdown after falling in love with, and subsequently ...