A resident who lives near his house said McCartney “came across as a pleasant ... Once he got the picture, he would reveal the “ catfish” and blackmail the victim into indulging in sex acts. Corrigan ...
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 ...
Alexander McCartney, dubbed the 'world's worst catfish', was jailed for life this week for his vile crimes. The beast, 26, admitted 185 charges involving 70 children, although a court has ...
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 ...
A catfish who targeted young girls online has been sentenced to at least 20 years in prison after being convicted of the manslaughter of a victim who took her own life. Alexander McCartney pleaded ...
Over four days he demanded she send him explicit images. When Cimarron refused, he told her to “dry your eyes and look cute for me”. At Belfast Crown Court, prosecutor David McDowell QC ...
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 ...