Hunting The Catfish Crime Gang | |
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Genre | Factual |
Directed by | Pete Grant |
Presented by | James Blake |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
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Executive producer | Kelda Crawford-McCann |
Running time | 57 minutes |
Production company | Strident |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Three |
Release | 23 October 2023 |
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Hunting The Catfish Crime Gang is a BBC Three television documentary. The programme is presented by James Blake and follows his investigation into a criminal network that stole his identity and used it for an online catfishing scam. During the investigation, the programme revealed that hundreds of fake social media profiles had been set up using Blake's likeness, and multiple women had been defrauded.