Catfishing was a word for a television programme until the Sweet Bobby case put it in front of the High Court. I acted for Kirat Assi, and most of what is written here comes from that case and the ones that followed it. If you have been catfished, the first question is always the same, is it illegal, and the answer is now yes, in the right circumstances.
A promise made live on ITV’s This Morning to find the catfish, kept in the High Court with an apology and damages.
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Video: how the Sweet Bobby catfish kept her victim believing, for nearly ten years, that she was in a relationship with a real person.
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The solicitor’s account of the Sweet Bobby case: a decade of deception by more than fifty invented characters, and the fight for justice that followed.
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Video: the lawyers behind the Sweet Bobby documentary on what the catfishing case looked like from the legal side.
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The first successful civil claim for catfishing in the UK, after a decade of deception by a relative posing as more than fifty people.
The Case of Kirat Assi v Simran Kaur Bhogal – Sweet Bobby Read More »
Catfishing happens when someone uses false identity to lure you into loving them. They pretend they are the person they believe you want them to be. Catfishing can be part of an illegal act of deception if for example the perpetrator obtain information by deception
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Social media lawyer Yair Cohen says that the internet and social media, through the collective wisdom and madness of the crowd is very judgemental and could be unforgiving.
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She was being harassed online, she said, but as our conversation deepened, it became clear that her torment was not unfolding in conventional online spaces but within the world of her Second Life character.
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