In case you’re not familiar with the MTV show, a ‘catfish’ is someone who creates fake personal profiles on social media sites – often online dating sites – using someone else’s pictures and a false bio.
It’s the kind of thing you don’t expect to happen to you. Amelia Perrin thought that too. Until it did.
The 19-year-old student and features editor of Royal Holloway’s student paper The Tab, says she first discovered people had been using her selfies to get jobs and attract men online when a photographer contacted her on Facebook.