Inside Opinion » notre dame http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion What's on the minds of Tacoma News Tribune editorial writers Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How to avoid getting ‘catfished’ (thanks, State Department) http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2013/01/24/how-to-avoid-getting-catfished-thanks-state-department/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2013/01/24/how-to-avoid-getting-catfished-thanks-state-department/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:15:08 +0000 Cheryl Tucker http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/?p=15569 If you don’t know what “catfished” means, you haven’t been following the Manti Te’o saga. Short definition: getting involved online with a person who is misrepresenting him/herself. As in maybe not even existing.

The State Department is offering tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of these sweetheart scams. Here’s the link.

One tipoff that the person you’re “dating” is scamming you: “The scammer has incredibly bad luck — often getting into car crashes, arrested, mugged, beaten or hospitalized — usually all within the course of a couple of months.”

Friday we’re running an entertaining article by Bloomberg …

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