SAN ANTONIO – Catfishing is when someone pretends to be someone else online, stealing a real person’s photos and claiming they’re that person.
Usually, a catfish will use social media or dating websites to pursue romantic relationships.
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Victims of catfishing are caught on both sides, the people the catfish are pursuing and the people who catfish steal photos from.
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If you think you might be the victim of a catfish scheme, use Google’s reverse image search to see if someone might be stealing your photos.
This isn’t a foolproof way to identify whether you might have been catfished but it’s a good start.
View the Google image search tool here.
Other indications you might be the victim of a catfish scheme, according to eHarmony:
That age-old adage, “If it’s too good to be true it probably is,” rings true for catfish schemes.