Last year, a Kaysville woman went to the FBI alleging a man she had met through an online dating app claimed to be an FBI security expert and had asked her to order him cellphones he needed for his job.
She had let him order the phones through her account and, before she knew it, he allegedly had ordered between $200,000 and $500,000 in phones that he didn’t pay for, having them shipped outside the country, according to KSL.
It’s just one example of a problem not uncommon on online dating apps, so-called “catfishing,” where someone pretends to be someone he or she is not in order to take advantage of an unsuspecting individual.