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How to safe by Catfishing.
Updated: Apr 8, 2022
Catfishing is a deceptive activity where a person creates a fictional persona or fake identity on a social networking service, usually targeting a specific victim.The practice may be used for financial gain, to compromise a victim in some way, as a way to intentionally upset a victim, or for wish fulfillment. Catfishing media has been produced, often featuring victims who wish to identify their catfisher. Celebrities have been targeted, which has brought media attention to catfishing practices.
The modern term originated from the 2010 American documentary Catfish. The documentary follows Nev Schulman, the executive producer, as a victim of catfishing. He had cultivated a relationship with what he thought was a 19-year-old girl from the Midwestern United States. The woman with whom he had been communicating was actually a 40-year-old housewife. In the documentary, it is mentioned that the woman's husband came up with the term as he found comparison to a myth how cod and catfish act when shipped in different tanks. The myth describes how live cod fish were shipped with catfish in the same tanks to keep the cod active, ensuring the quality of the cod whereas being shipped alone the cod would become pale and lethargic. This myth originated in the fiction writing of Henry Nevinson (1913, Essays in Rebellion) and Charles Marriott (1913, The Catfish).
The term catfishing has become more widely known throughout the subsequent decade, thanks to a television series which followed the main star of the movie, Yaniv (Nev) Schulman, helping other people investigate their possible catfish situations.
The term also spiked in popularity during an incident involving University of Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o in 2013.
Signs of Catfishing-If you talk to people online, here are ways you can spot someone who might be catfishing you:
They Avoid Showing Their Face-If you’ve been talking to someone for a while online and they refuse to video chat or phone chat, they might be a catfish. They may give excuses for why they can’t do it, like a broken camera or simply that they’re shy.A catfish usually can’t send you a candid selfie. They may have access to only a few pictures from whoever they are impersonating. So, if they can’t send you any pictures besides what is on their dating profile or social media page, they may be a catfish.Catfish also avoid meeting up in person. They may agree to meet and then not show, come up with excuses for why they can’t meet, or avoid the topic altogether.
Their Online Accounts Don’t Have Many Friends or Interactions-A catfish usually develops social media accounts to make their persona seem more believable. If someone you met online has few social media friends or interactions, they may be a faker.
Their Story Seems Too Good to Be True
Catfish often make up stories to fit into your life. In one anecdote, a person reported that her catfish said the large corporation he worked for was opening an office in her small beach town, so he would be there a lot. The story seemed highly unlikely, and it was .
Additionally, they may tell stories about having high-level jobs or family wealth to make themselves seem more attractive.
They may invent stories designed to make you feel sorry for them, like a bad relationship or a difficult family background.
They Ask for Money
A person you’ve never met asking for money is a huge red flag. They may ask for some cash or tell a tale about being in a tough bind.
They Are Extremely Romantic Right Away
Romantic or sexual attention can feel good. A catfish may love bomb you — overwhelm you with loving messages or words — to distract you from asking questions about their identity. A catfish may even try to get you to commit to them in a relationship, even though you haven’t met in person. Never send nude or sexual photos to someone you haven’t met in person. A catfish may attempt to blackmail you with the images.
Dealing With Catfishing
If you or someone you know is a victim of catfishing, there are ways you can handle it and put an end to it.
How to safe by Catfishing- Online friendship is easy, but there are also some challenges. You can stay safe if you follow some online rules.
All internet media platforms have some top defense settings that you should take advantage of. Review your privacy settings every month and make sure your personal data is completely secure. Always be careful about the information you are sharing on internet media. Avoid sharing personal things. Do not reveal confidential information such as bank account details, home address etc. to any person whom you have found online, check for clean profiles like Google, for this you can take the help of reverse image search, explore the profile in this smart way. See the short in profile.
Friend list No tagged photos No photos with friends and family So there's definitely something suspicious Always use platforms that allow suspicious profiles to be reported. With this you can save not only yourself, but also others catfish it.
Tech tips: How to secretly read a WhatsApp message without letting the sender know
Yes, it is a text-don’t-call-dominated world. But there are times when you can neither text nor call but you also can’t throw your phone away. During times like these, what you can do is read the WhatsApp message without letting the sender know so that you can take your time to get back to them, without them feeling that you have read and not replied to their messages. A simple way to do this is to simply turn off the read receipts or blue ticks, but this is a 2-way-street and you will not be able to guess if the other person has read your WhatsApp message or not.
Turning off read receipts or disabling blue ticks on WhatsApp is easy. To disable read receipts, go to WhatsApp. Accounts > Privacy> Turn off read receipts by swiping left.
However, if you are the curious sort and WANT to know who seen-zoned you, and delve into eternal misery, but also don’t want others to know that you read their WhatsApp messages, you can follow this trick -- before opening a WhatsApp message, out your phone in Airplane mode and when you are done, it will be marked as unread even if you have turned off the Airplane mode.
Another trick you can follow to show your presence less on WhatsApp is to turn off your last seen. Go to Settings > Click on Account > Select Privacy. You can tweak settings to disable last seen for your contacts or for no contacts at all.
You can also mark a WhatsApp message as “unread” for times when you see a message but don’t read it so that you remember to read and reply to it later. To mark a message as unread, tap on a message and hold it, then select Mark as unread. Note that the sender will know that the message has been read but you will be reminded that you have not actually read it through a blue or green dot.
In related news, WhatsApp is working on a way to let users transfer their chat history from iOS to Android. Until now, chat histories could only migrate from an Android device to an Android and from iOS to iOS. WhatsApp is currently testing the feature and is yet to make it official. Google has also added a Data Restore Tool app to Play Store that, as the name suggests, allows users to hold on to content from their old devices while setting up their new devices. The Data Restore Tool allows users to transfer apps, photos, contacts through a cable or cloud backup while setting up a device. As of now, the app version on PlayStore is 1.0.382048734, which could reportedly allow users to copy their WhatsApp chats and history from an iPhone to an Android phone.
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