He would then encourage them to share indecent images. Once he got the picture, he would reveal the “ catfish” and blackmail the victim into indulging in sex acts. Corrigan said McCartney “threatened ...

The term gained popular use as a verb for deception from the 2010 documentary titled Catfish directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman that talked about these kinds of fraudulent relationships. He is ...

It was a phone call from a 13-year-old girl in Scotland in 2019 that eventually led to the capture of a social media predator described as one of the world's most prolific child sex abusers.

A prolific "catfish" offender whose cruel campaign of global online blackmail targeted thousands of young victims and drove a 12-year-old US girl to suicide was on Friday jailed for life.

Britain's worst catfish told a 12-year-old girl she was going to be 'my little toy for the night' in vile Snapchats after tricking her into sending intimate photos of herself. Sick Alexander ...

Alexander McCartney, 26, posed online as a teenage girl to befriend young females across the world on the social media app Snapchat, forcing them to send him explicit pictures, then threatening to ...

The Northern Ireland resident sought explicit images from thousands of girls he had groomed and blackmailed, leading to the death of a 12-year-old girl in the United States. By Claire Moses ...

An online predator who drove one of his catfish victims in the US to take her own life has been jailed for at least 20 years. Alexander McCartney, 26, who admitted 185 charges involving 70 ...

An online predator who led an American girl and her father to take their own lives has been jailed for at least 20 years after the UK's largest "catfishing" case. Warning: This article contains ...

The UK’s most prolific “catfish” ran a “paedophile enterprise” targeting 3,500 children in 30 countries, a court has heard. Alexander McCartney was jailed for life and ordered to serve a ...

A CATFISH paedo from Northern Ireland who targeted around 3,500 children in 30 countries — leading one girl to kill herself — was jailed for life today. Alexander McCartney, 26, posed for six ...

A serial catfish abuser from Northern Ireland who caused one of his victims in the US to take her own life has been jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years. Online predator Alexander McCartney ...