How to recognize tricks and tactics of online emotional manipulators.
Anna Akbari’s story exposes the tactics of online manipulators who prey upon unsuspecting women.Anna Akbari logged onto OkCupid, looking for someone who matched her energy and curiosity. As an accomplished professional with a PhD in sociology and a teaching position at New York University, she got more than she’d been looking for. According to his bio, Ethan Shuman was a tall, attractive 35-year-old New Yorker with a PhD in applied math. He worked for Morgan Stanley and the U.S.
They flirted, they argued, they fought and made up, and the emotional intensity increased. They made plans to meet in New York. Ethan promised to meet her at the airport when she flew back from California, but a crisis at work kept him in Washington. They planned to meet again for dinners, an opera, but each time there were more last-minute cancellations.
Using her research skills to investigate, she found that “Ethan” was a serial online manipulator who’d deceived other women and, as she describes in her book,has become increasingly common . A law review article defines what “Ethan” was doing as “catfishing,” using “the cloak of technology to fabricate online personas and lure victims into
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