WTAF--Bizarre story of academic impersonation

[larryc]

"Around the end of 2017, I came to know that someone had been using my work and details from my life to catfish people in his academic and professional circle. He was a grad student in the U.S., and someone I've never known in a personal capacity."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp4gx/professor-catfished-by-stalker-identity-theft-plagiarism?fbclid=IwAR3hEWE9alTQsGJYx285mOyMbg9DIBHDLVo5PMzCMq8LIHb-vjHoV94aBwg

[Katrina Gulliver]

I remember this case!! I wonder what happened to the faker.

(There was a more mundane version of this recently where a psych prof saw her own paper had been published, as the work of the journal editor she'd submitted it to....)