Catfishing is not really new, and the term and the phenomenon—being tricked by someone online, usually posing as someone they are not— came into parlance with the 2010 documentary “Catfishing.” But catfishing was still new around 2011—the year pop duo Tegan & Sara were caught in a long-term, still-running catfish scam.
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