Catfish to look out for and News Stories

Catfish using the name Nathanial Michael. This is the Finnish Politician Tom Packalén in the picture.

He is asking for phone numbers, emails and addresses.


Catfish using the name Meyer Williams/Patrick Joseph/Wayne Alex/Anthony Morgan/Arthur Weissmann and others

They are using the pictures of Doyle Mills

More photos can be seen here 

This is the man behind the mask:


An Edmond (USA) woman is speaking out, hoping you can learn from her misfortune that cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars. The FBI is now investigating the “Catfishing Scam” that started with a Facebook friend request back in August. Read her story here:

Edmond Widow Out Hundreds Of Thousands After Catfishing Scam


Backing up my post: Just a bit of fun or sexual abuse, Sean Sutton, of the National Crime Agency (NCA) discusses the rapid rise in online dating in initiated offences:

Random Killers look for victims via dating apps


Metro Teacher Falls For Soldier ‘Catfishing’ Scam

An Oklahoma City school teacher hopes you can learn from her after she was scammed. Read here.


Where has this guy been for the last decade!! Lee County Sheriff’s warns about new ‘romance scams’ Read here 


Woman, 18, conned out of £5,000 by ‘sugar daddy’ conman she met online who claimed to earn £50m a year – and she wasn’t the only victim Read here


English Catfish-this one just a thrill seeker. The lengths people will go to make their own sad empty lives a little more exciting at the expense of others.

Catfish I met on holiday when I was EIGHT stole my identity to go on dating sites and attract men: Read the story here.


Both sides of the story here from the person who’s pictures have been stolen by a Catfish and the Catfish’s victims.

Con artist ‘stole pictures of a happily married gay ex-BBC producer to con lonely-hearted women out of money on Elite Singles dating site’

Read his story here’

He must hate women!’: PR consultant, 60, who was drawn-in by a scammer using a married gay man’s photos on dating app Zoosk says his goal is to ‘abuse women’

Read the victims story here


It’s not always women that get targeted: Retired  American citizen Michael Morgan was duped in a ‘relationship’ with nurse Caryl Jones of South Africa.

Read his story here


Women call out catfish after discovering he was using his 17 y/o ex girlfriends intimate pictures to dupe and exploit them for more images. Police have opened a case file in America:

Read the victims story here


Young boys in Belfast targeted by Catfish for indecent images. A fake Instagram account portrayed as a 14 year old girl has been Direct Messaging lads in Belfast. Police have ben informed and have said the image is a stock image from the internet.

Read the story here