Regular audiences of MTV’s series “Catfish” (for which online-only, misleading relationships are drawn in to the real life, albeit with digital digital cameras operating) might believe the show simply highlights the extreme situations of a typical problem—people whom tell is based on search of the connection that is personal. As an example, tests also show that about 81% of people lie within their online dating sites profiles, and every person has a tale about a misleading boyfriend or gf who was simplyn’t everything they at first seemed.

But lying about who you really are—and your affections—solely to get usage of some body else’s information that is personally identifying cash is an even more harmful kind of catfishing seldom highlighted by the show, andit’s in the increase simply over time for Valentine’s Day.