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Shelly Lynne Chartier (born 1983/1984) [1] is a Canadian woman who became infamous for her online involvement in a catfishing scandal involving NBA basketball player Chris Andersen and a teenage aspiring model, Paris Dunn, among others. [2] [3]
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 ...
A catfish may ask you for sensitive images and money. Many scammers use already available photos of other people in their fake personas, which may be possible to spot using a reverse image search.
Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare is a British true crime documentary film directed by Lyttanya Shannon and released to streaming on Netflix on 16 October 2024. The documentary is based on the 2021 Tortoise Media podcast of the same name, which tells the story of Kirat Assi, a woman who was deceived by someone posing as a fictitious romantic partner named "Bobby Jandu" in an intricate ...
Perhaps the biggest red flag of a catfish, other than fake or stolen profile photos, is that this person refuses to video chat with you. They may say they have poor Wi-Fi, an old phone or are self ...
In 'Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara,' director Erin Lee Carr tells the strange story of how the twin-sister pop duo was hacked and the digital con artists who impersonated them.
In May 2023, the adult subscription site My.Club instituted a "No Fake Creators" policy, and announced that every person using the platform to sell photos, videos or conversation would be required to undergo identity verification, including facial scanning, each time they logged onto the platform.
A Northern Ireland man was sentenced Friday to a minimum of 20 years in prison after being found guilty by a U.K. court in what has been described as the biggest criminal "catfishing" case in the ...