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Catfishing

Crime

A Catfishing With a Happy Ending

Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—and then she found love with the model whose photographs he had stolen.

Jeff Maysh The Atlantic Oct 2017 20min Permalink

Crime

Online Dating Made This Woman a Pawn in a Global Crime Plot

Audrey Elrod thought she had found the man of her dreams. Today she is in a West Virginia prison. She’s broke. And the court has ordered her to pay more than $400,000 to victims of the same man who conned her.

Brendan I. Koerner Wired Oct 2015 25min Permalink