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Catfish are easy to farm and a popular inexpensive and safe food. But in Oklahoma, and about a dozen other states, catfishing can get you in trouble.
The kind of catfish states like Oklahoma are eyeing are cyberbullies who steal others' identities and likenesses off the internet. They create entirely fictitious online personas who lure unsuspecting users into online romances or who create those profiles to harass, intimidate or threaten.
Oklahoma law defines this kind of scammer as someone who uses social media to grab a person's name, voice, signature, photograph or likeness without the person's...