Over the past couple of weeks, the topics we have studied in BCM206 closely correlate. This week we studied the use of fake identities, specifically in the US military. The use of fake identities is commonly found online, its notoriously known as “Catfishing”. The concept is so popular (yet uncomforting) that there was an American reality tv show made on the concept called “catfish” (obviously). In an article by Vulture called “Here’s how MTV’s catfish works”, the journalist studied the way catfishing effects an individual. Catfishing is not only a danger, but a mental mind game. ‘Catfishes’, as they’ve been nicknamed, prey on vulnerable people online leading them to believe they are someone else, scamming money at of them and/or leading them into a fake relationship online. These cases tend to become a large scaled and long length scams.

reference: https://www.vulture.com/2014/05/catfish-mtv-casting-production-process.html