Catfishing is a form of social engineering whereby a malicious actor uses the likeness of another person to impersonate them on social media including online dating sites,^[0][1] often for the purposes of facilitating romance scams.^[2][3] Other purposes include for monitoring team members by coaches,^[4] faciliated by the increased information available after having a connection request accepted. Catfishing is also called catphishing.^[5][6]

Catfishing Synonym

Catphishing is another term for catfishing.^[5][6]

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