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 …show more content…
was overseas fighting for the United States looking for love and also asking for their money. This catfish used the photos of a man named Greg, who is a era life veteran, and has over 150,000 followers on Instagram, making him Instagram famous where he posts all about his life. Therefore this catfish was easily able to get information and sue actuate photos along with his sort of made up story. His online fame has caused his pictures to be used by this catfish all around the world, such as how the story of one women who claimed that “had left her husband, she had sent them money and subsequently they were going into foreclosure because she was sending this person all this money and her mother would not believe her no matter what.”, so she contacted the real Navy Jack, Greg.
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
others.
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 …show more content…
was overseas fighting for the United States looking for love and also asking for their money. This catfish used the photos of a man named Greg, who is a era life veteran, and has over 150,000 followers on Instagram, making him Instagram famous where he posts all about his life. Therefore this catfish was easily able to get information and sue actuate photos along with his sort of made up story. His online fame has caused his pictures to be used by this catfish all around the world, such as how the story of one women who claimed that “had left her husband, she had sent them money and subsequently they were going into foreclosure because she was sending this person all this money and her mother would not believe her no matter what.”, so she contacted the real Navy Jack, Greg.
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
others.