Don’t Get Hooked by Catfishing

In the Internet world, Catfishing is when you create a person out of whole cloth. (A lie, in other words) The word has entered our pop culture vernacular this week with news that Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o was the victim of a catfishing hoax. Since then we've heard that Te'o isn't the only popular football player to be duped - one scam went after several Washington Redskins players. But why? And how?