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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]
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 ...
Alexander McCartney has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years after posing as a young girl to blackmail 70 children across the world Predator in ‘UK’s largest catfishing case’ drove 12-year ...
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 ...
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 bank eventually reverts the money order cash but not the wire transfer. [6] Saying they need the victim to send money to pay for a passport. [6] Saying they require money for flights to the victim's country because they are being held back in their home country by a family member or spouse. [22]
Sweet Bobby took the podcasting world by storm in 2021, and now, the shocking catfish scheme is at the center of Netflix's latest documentary.. Tortoise Media’s six-part investigative podcast ...
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 ...