I understand that term ‘catfishing’ means pretending to be something/someone else. But what it has to do with catfish? Does catfish pretends to be somehing else under the water? Or does cat is fishing with a lure? I’m not high it’s just english is not my main language and as I trandlating it can get different meaning😅
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To start, “phishing” (sounds like “fishing”) is a generic term for using email to try and trick someone into doing what you want them to do, often click on an evil link. In 2010, a movie was being made about a rich movie guy who gets phished by an older woman pretending to be a 19 year-old hottie. In the movie, the woman’s husband calls what she’s going “catfishing”, coining the term with a story about live cod fish being shipped with a catfish in the tanks to keep the cod active, ensuring the quality of the cod versus cod being shipped alone which causes them to become pale and lethargic = less valuable. Regarding fish, this is complete nonsense, but the term stuck in the lexicon.
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