Catfished:
Being deceived over facebook as the deceiver professed their romantic feelings to his/her victim, but isn’t who they say they are.
Having a fake facebook profile, images and avatar in order to lure people to have romantic feelings. They are then catfished when the victim realises the person they have falled for via facebook is not who they APPEAR to be [Urban Dictionary]
Noted in “Trump’s strange legal team can’t seem to help itself,” Steve Benen, MaddowBlog:
Asked about his missives, Cobb told Mother Jones’ David Corn that he “was trying to turn someone who appeared angry into a friend. And privately. My bad. This was what I believed to be a private conversation. There are many pros and talented people in the White House. I am proud to be there. It was not for public consumption but it appears I was catfished.”
That’s not even close to what “catfished” means.
