Draft Wisconsin Law Would Target Online ‘Catfishing’ Scams

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Using social networks to create fake personas to harass or defraud someone would be illegal under legislation lawmakers are considering in Wisconsin, the latest state to address a scam known as “catfishing.”
Just this week, retired NBA star Ray Allen told a Florida court he was the victim of catfishing by a man trying to extort money from him. Allen’s attorney said in a court filing Tuesday that a man online “pretended to be a number of attractive w