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Catfishing is when a person uses false information and images to create a fake identity online with the intention to trick, harass, or scam another person. It often happens on social media or ...
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 ...
Catfish scam artists probably did a little bit of research, via your online profiles, to find out about you. They may know your favorite movies, TV shows, bands and so on.
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 ...
As an example of state-sponsored Internet sockpuppetry, in 2011, a US company called Ntrepid was awarded a $2.76 million contract from U.S. Central Command for "online persona management" operations [40] to create "fake online personas to influence net conversations and spread U.S. propaganda" in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Pashto [40] as part of ...
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.
Frequently, groomers make a fake profile in order to create a persona more likely to be trusted by their possible victims. Such a phenomenon is known as catfishing. The definition of a catfish is "a person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes."
The Menlo Report is a report published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division that outlines an ethical framework for research involving Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). [1] The 17-page report [2] was published on August 3, 2012.