I've spent years in the trenches of online scams — reporting catfish accounts, tracking the scripts they reuse, and watching the same patterns play out again and again with different photos and different names attached.

Spot the Catfish is everything I've learned distilled into one practical guide: the conversation red flags, the visual tells, the behavioral patterns that show up right before someone asks for money. Not vague "stay safe" advice — actual, specific patterns pulled from real cases.

This is the first release from an ongoing project focused on making online scam awareness sharp and specific instead of generic — including a companion app currently in the works. More guides (and tools) are on the way.

In my free time I enjoy flyfishing, traveling, enjoying good friends and family, reading as well as writing.