Manti Te’o may not be a name South Africans are familiar with, but a decade ago he was a darling of American sports before it all came crashing down.
Taking our relationships into the digital ether, there’s a greater chance for illusion and catfishing. These are the perfect conditions for the events captured in ‘The Tinder Swindler’.
Online dating made it easier to meet people, but harder to spot whether or not the person you’re meeting up with is who they say they are.
The ‘Face to Face’ feature on Tinder, which has just gone global, is bad news for those who’ve been using the app for nefarious means.
When a scammer tried to catfish Capetonian Jessica Carver, he didn’t know that he was messing with the wrong woman.
Rudi Brits has made a habit of out conning wealthy Stellenbosch women out of their money and expensive belongings.
People are using the new ‘gender-swap’ filter on Snapchat to catfish unsuspecting men on Tinder.
If the person you’re talking to online seems too good to be true, they probably are. Here’s how to know if you’re being catfished.
A new reality TV show, ‘The Circle’, premiered on British television this week. Imagine everything you hate about social media interaction meets Big Brother.
Michael Morgan thought he was travelling from North Carolina to Cape Town to meet his soulmate, but sadly that’s not how this story ends.
Ever meet someone over the Internet? Ever heard someone who has say something like this: “We’ve been dating for two years, one problem, we haven’t met yet”? Today, social media and other digital platforms makes it easy to stalk find “that special person”. Although we hear about real life couples who have met on dating […]