Catfishing is hardly new, but the proliferation of online dating made the practice extremely easy and popular.

Just to be clear, "catfishing" here refers to a scam where the 'catfish' creates a fictitious online identity and seeks out online relationships, esp. romantic ones, but also to solicit donations and such. Most catfish just want to see if they can get away with being someone else online, but some have far more nefarious purposes.

Recently, on reddit, a user came to the subreddit /r/catfish seeking help to unmask a long-term suspected catfish, who first went by Vanessa B, then Vanessa N, then Vanessa C, and currently, Venessa P. This is her FB profile.

(The various surnames had been suppressed, even though they are very likely fake names)