The person behind Netflix's new true crime documentary, Sweet Bobby: My Catfishing Nightmare, once revealed the reason she went ahead with the deciet.

Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare is available to stream on Netflix now, while Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara is being released on Friday, October 18. Hulu’s upcoming horror series Grotesquerie looks like a quintessential Ryan Murphy production, blending horror, true crime, and… Travis Kelce?

One famous catfishing victim is Manti Te’o, a Notre Dame football star who, in 2013, found out his girlfriend did not exist. The catfisher, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, explained how she carried out the ruse in the 2022 Netflix documentary Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.

"The Menendez Brothers" are telling their side of the story in a new documentary on Netflix. Here what we learned from the film about the murders, two trials, and more.

From The Tinder ­Swindler to The 2 Johnnies, catfishing stories have been entertainment gold in recent years. Their appeal lies partly in a kind of horrified bafflement at the level of multimedia ­effort taken on the part of the catfish and partly in a schadenfreude-tinged wonder at the ­naivety of the victims.

A new Netflix documentary tells a sinister tale of a decade-long online romance scam, and the devastation that followed.

On the surface, Sweet Bobby is a fascinating and disturbing tale, but the storytelling itself is a little flimsy.

When Alexi Mostrous launched his Sweet Bobby podcast for Tortoise Media in 2021, it was met with an immediate outpouring of, well, confusion. Who is Bobby? What are his motivations? Why would someone do this,