Catfishing Analysis

Through Animations, catfishing is explore through that generally social networking websites create relationships that come out of real life situations, friendships, and mutual acquaintances. Catfishes reach out to other users like real life relationships, therefore, keeping up with covering up ones identity with a fake one is hard. Such as the Fox news story of the “
Navy veteran says scammers are using his identity, photos to catfish women online” (Marraco) Whereas a Navy Veteran pictures caused attention, due to a scam that used his pictures causing many women to feel heartbroken and a loss of their money. This catfish created a profile where hundreds of women all over the United States thought they were dying someone named Jack who apparently
Greg stated that a first he did not think much of the emails and messages he was receiving until one day he claimed that he was in the mall in California, and a women came up to him, and he stated “she started yelling at me and she was hysterical and she was saying that she couldn’t believe that I’d stop talking to her, that we were dating for so long and she wanted her money back, and where did I go and what happened?”, then it hit up what has been happening. Many women were getting heartbroken by him, and lost a lot of their money, unfortunately Greg states how “There are people that fall for this and do form loving relationships with me just to get their heart broke. I usually end it with I’m gay and happily in a relationship and hopefully sometimes that is a closing deal for them and sometimes it is not. Sometimes they are even still persistent.” He claims to have tried to get rid of all this fake accounts online through different social media networks and his identity is still being used to Catfish