Anatomy of a Catfish: Dominique as "Jasmine"
On November 26, minding my own business, I got an interesting Facebook friend request. At first glance, it looked like the typical spam request that would eventually direct me to a porn site. Except for the locale of the person. Generally, the spam requests come from a locale either from my profile like where I grew up, but this one was from Colorado. It took about 4 seconds of a closer look to realize that it was my ex-wifey Dominique, after old shenanigans. And I do mean “old”. She had only just recently catfished to me taking on the guise of a weather person working at 9News. The same 9News that had just exposed her as a fraud and a house thief. Dominique intended for me to click on a link that she sent that would record and send her my IP address. Not that she could do anything with that info, especially given the fact that I don’t have a static IP address; the perks of having more than one or two hacker friends. First, I sn...