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Topic: catfishing

Tegan Quin and Sara Quin on "Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara" (Hulu/Disney)

Tegan and Sara catfishing doc bombshells

Nardos Haile
Manti Te'o in "Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist" (Photo Courtesy of Netflix)

Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax & aftermath

Joy Saha
Patton Oswalt in "I Love My Dad" (Magnolia Pictures)

Oswalt on new catfishing cringe comedy

Gary M. Kramer
Melissa McCarthy as Frances on "Nine Perfect Strangers" (Vince Valitutti/Hulu)

Pathetic plight of TV's catfished women

Kylie Cheung
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Catfishing (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How catfishers exploit basic neurology

Stacey Wood, Tessa Solomon Lane, Brian Keeley, Thomas Borowski
"The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing and Coming Out" by William Dameron (Sharona Jacobs/Little A)

Scammers hid behind his face

Erin Keane
(Getty/Universal Pictures/Salon)

A "50 Shades" cautionary tale

Corina Zappia
The author in one of his stolen photos

My face is catfish bait

William Dameron
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Brendan Gauthier
A photo of the author as a teen (Fantagraphics)

I was an AOL teen catfisher

Sarah Sweeney
The author in one of his stolen photos

My face is catfish bait

William Dameron
A photo of the author. (John Rice)

Catfishing: a cautionary tale

Nicholas Searle
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Ann Coulter (AP/Cliff Owen)

Meet your online doppelgänger

Paula Young Lee
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