When people catfish, there's actually a romantic attraction. But they will use fake pictures and things like that to try to advance a relationship. And then when the mask comes off, but the person, so i've heard of two kinds of cat fishing. One which is based on a lack of trust at the beginning. The other kind of catfishing that i've heard about is really, in a sense, even more predatory. It's not even a woman, and there's no romantic interest on the other side.