Fill in the Blanks Catfishing: Deception in the Digital AgeOnline version Solutions B2 Unit 7 Vocab review by Ekaterina Orekhova 1 disguising distorting rise unethical addiction manipulate pass off effect photoshop fabricate deceive revealing fooling devious obsession reason Catfishing refers to the practice of your true identity online in order to others . Catfishers will often a completely fictional persona , the reality of who they truly are . They often their appearance to as a perfect version of themselves , poor victims . The for this deception is often an to the attention they receive from their online persona . The with maintaining this false identity can lead to behavior . Catfishers may go to great lengths to their victims into their personal information or even giving them money . The on victims can be devastating , as they discover that the person they thought they knew was a fake . Ultimately , catfishing highlights the troubling in cyber crimes driven by the anonymity of online interactions .