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catfishing

man with applewatch in selfie on dating website caption "I spy an Apple Watch" (l) Text messages saying " Out of curiosity... How recent are your photos on hinge? These are all from last year. :) recent! Yay! Which do you like better apple or android? I like iOS systems why do you ask me that? I see green bubbles so I was curious. What is that? I think you're a catfish" caption "Stay vigilant, Queens!" (c) Man posing in nature with the watch on circled in red (r)

‘I spy an Apple Watch’: Woman shares hack for exposing Tinder catfish in viral TikTok

'Stay vigilant, queens!'

On Mar 29, 2022 by Rachel Kiley

Internet Culture IRL
woman on facetime (l) woman covering mouth (c) man on facetime (r)

Friends make woman FaceTime man from Tinder on big screen because they thought he was a catfish in viral TikTok

‘We watch out for our gorl.’

On Mar 4, 2022 by Grace Stanley

Internet Culture
man puzzled (l) women working at their desks (m) (r)

Man films women of his office and compares them to their Instagram pics, calls them catfishes in viral TikTok

'She doesn't look like the girl from Instagram.'

On Feb 28, 2022 by Moises Mendez II

IRL
TikTok user calls out attempted catfish

‘I feel sorry for him’: TikToker exposes man after noticing detail on his Tinder profile

'How NOT to catfish 101.'

On Jun 4, 2021 by Nahila Bonfiglio

Internet Culture
The Los Angeles Lakers logo.

How a catfishing mystery upended Lakers fandom

What started out as a call to locate missing person quickly unraveled.

On Apr 21, 2021 by Michelle Jaworski

Internet Culture
soccer twitter personality fakes cancer using photo of someone who beat cancer

Popular soccer ‘insider’ on Twitter exposed for faking cancer, catfishing

The person whose photo he used spoke out.

On Dec 22, 2020 by Phil West

Internet Culture IRL
Troye Sivan Catfished

Troye Sivan got catfished by a fake Greta Thunberg

'Whoever thought of that is absolutely genius.'

On Mar 27, 2020 by Moises Mendez II

Internet Culture
nigeria catfishing facebook

Man beaten to death after being lured by catfisher promising sex for money

The catfisher and his brother were attempting to rob the man.

On Mar 17, 2020 by Samantha Shaps

IRL
two catfish circling a heart with a tinder flame at the top

The decade that dating apps exposed all our sh*t

From ‘Catfish’ to Me Too, hooking up changed in the 2010s. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

On Dec 27, 2019 by Nayomi Reghay

IRL Tech

Charlize Theron got catfished by someone pretending to be Emily Blunt

Theron DM'd the catfish under the impression they were Blunt.

On Dec 21, 2019 by Alexandra Samuels

Internet Culture Streaming
beyonce-catfish

Stans are using pictures of Beyoncé to catfish sugar daddies

And it's working.

On Oct 15, 2019 by Tiffanie Drayton

Internet Culture Streaming
what-is-incel-chadfishing

What is incel ‘Chadfishing’?

It's like catfishing, but even more gross.

On Jun 25, 2019 by Alyse Stanley

IRL
Cynthia Hoffman

Teen confesses to killing her best friend on video to get $9 million from a stranger online

The man claiming to be a millionaire was catfishing.

On Jun 19, 2019 by Samira Sadeque

IRL
Someone is using a photo of ESPN host Bomani Jones to catfish folks on Tinder.

Someone is using photos of a ESPN host Bomani Jones to catfish people on Tinder

'How you gonna try to catfish with a dude who's on ESPN five days a week?'

On May 8, 2019 by Eilish O'Sullivan

Internet Culture IRL
facebook user

Ex-Air Force officer allegedly aided Iran in catfishing U.S. spies

Iranian hackers posing as a woman attempted to entice a U.S. intelligence officer.

On Feb 13, 2019 by Mikael Thalen

Tech

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