By Dan Ketchum for Spokeo So long as you’re at least a pescetarian, some nice hot catfish with a squeeze of lemon and a side of hush puppies can be a wonderful thing — way less so when you encounter ...

Roberts, a matchmaker with the Los Angeles-based matchmaking company Three Day Rule said that because of the rise in romance scams, where a person uses a fake online identity to gain a victim's ...

There's a darker side, though: Often catfishing is the first step in a romance scam, which can end in a ... even automate the process of contacting victims using chatbots. In America alone ...