The concept of the “catfish” is decades old: a person poses online as someone else and uses the images and identities of other people to deceive, often leading someone into a relationship.
And unlike other catfish stories we might watch on Netflix, where extreme wealth or beauty are what suspends disbelief, Cora was credible because of a particularly Irish sense of placing people ...
A new support group for victims of catfishing has been set up to help them recover from what has been described as a “painful experience that can leave lasting emotional scars”.