Should catfish's be outed in a small country like Ireland?

The ones who do it to extort or gain financially should be publicly “outted” and, possibly, prosecuted.

The ones who are just doing it for the attention, or the company, and “getting off” over it don’t really need to be dragged through a trial by media.

It’s hard to imagine people are falling for this sort of thing now. Fair enough 10, or 15, years ago but nowadays you should know that if someone keeps making excuses not to meet up that they, on the balance of probability, aren’t who they say they are. Then it’s up to you if you want to keep tugging away or shutdown the, online, relationship.

Having devoured this story on Spotify and reading bits online after, I think it was fair game she was called out.

She was having a laugh at many many men's expense so why shouldn't she be called out?

She had many aliases on the go through an intricate web of lies over many years so it wasn't like she was an amateur that did it once for the laugh.

Live by the sword etc..

Should totally be outed - what a fool. Equally foolish are all the guys she deceived. I mean excuses not to meet up! Duh!

What I don’t understand is what was in it for her, she must have been seriously bored to put all that time in chatting and setting up fake profiles. As far as I can see she did t ask for money or anything so was it sheer boredom and the thrill of deceiving somebody???

Storm in a teacup if you ask me

Ordinarily I would agree with you but the level of planning and deception that went into this particular "con" was exceptional and could fool the most foolhardy.

Seemingly some gentlemen did send some "intimate" material to her. Who knows who she did or didn't show it to.

She apparently sent intimate pictures of "herself" too.

If anyone hasn't seen The Tinder Swindler on Netflix, it's a must watch..and show it to your teens too.

It should be mandatory in SPHE 🤣

To catfish to the level she did would indicate serious investment in the deception. As someone said on Twitter, imagine the time involved alone. I suspect what started off as a "harmless" distraction grew arms, legs, extra heads and basically took over her whole life. I think it would be in her own interest to be outed at this point, tbh.

I've had my pictures used for a number of fake online dating profiles and at least one Facebook profile (that I know of) over the years and it's always a) weird and invasive when it happens and b) a pain in the hole to get the pages taken down. Particularly the Facebook one.

If she’s vulnerable?

What about the lads she has humiliated?

F her

There's a *massive* whack of Bloggers Unveiled about the whole thing. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was the same person.

if you can,t meet a woman after 2 weeks ,assume she is not real, you can also use facetime, to talk to people on video , i,m sure a young famous irish podcaster can meet up with real women on tinder, if he wants to .anyone can make fake photo,s and social media accounts . the tinder swindler was a professional conman looking for money , he was happy to meet his victims and go on real dates.

a catfish is someone who sets up a fake identity online in order to have a fake relationship for some reason ,the last thing they do is meet up in real life .

is being a catfish illegal ? ,if you don,t ask for money, its messing with people and wasting their time .

they could go on their podcast and say ,her first name is .... , she is aged ... she works as a .... she looks like an actress name .... ,blonde, tall, medium build.etc she lives in county, eg mayo, clare in order to warn other people . maybe this was all material for the podcast.

he should report the fake accounts to instagram ,facebook .

What a story! I remember getting cat fished before. Person stole an Americans profile pic. Yet they knew the local town of where I'm from. When I realised it was a catfish, they eventually confessed and said they were too ugly and fat to ask me out so you used a fake profile instead 🙈 mad

id say fairly deep mental problems would be the answer

gullible idiots describes the 2 eejits audience fairly accurately. attention seekers describes the 2 eejits themselves

wouldnt surprise me at all either

Mental health can't excuse that type of behaviour.

Ah, I can see why they might be annoyed when the truth comes out. They could have used their time better. Others mightn’t be too sore about it, if it was good fun for a bit.

No, it actually sounds like you have a life 🤣

But I got hooked into the wormhole of the story for the psychology factor of it. It warrants some sort of thesis 😁