In 2012, MTV premiered a series called Catfish. It was a reality show wherein two friends exposed catfishers, examining the psychology behind the ruse and the implications for those they deceived. At ...

A celeb-targeting catfish has struck again: Mere months since Manti Te’o found himself outed for his online and very fake relationship, Criminal Minds and Dharma & Greg star Thomas Gibson has also ...

Last year, Netflix released “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist,” a two-part documentary about Manti Te’o’s catfishing story. But catfishing stories have been popular before “Untold” came out on ...

A catfish isn’t just a fish with whiskers. It’s a term for a person who pretends to be someone else online. A catfish uses fake photos, and sometimes a false persona, to find friends or romantic ...

Love has a tendency to give the world a rosy glow, which is part of the reason so many people find themselves blindsided by a romance scam known as catfishing. But what is catfishing, exactly, and why ...

So long as you're at least a pescetarian, some nice hot catfish with a squeeze of lemon and a side of hush puppies can be a wonderful thing—way less so when you encounter the online version of ...

The internet knows us better than we know ourselves. This is not news. There are countless stories such as the one detailing how Target’s customer tracking identified a teenager’s pregnancy before her ...

Catfishing is something that unfortunately happens more often than not on social media. There is even an MTV show dedicated to examples of it. For some people, catfishing may be all fun and games, but ...

Catfishing and the use of false profiles to scam and extort individuals online has become an unfortunate fact of our modern digital life. Even prison inmates have used such tactics to extort money ...