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SC inmates take "catfishing" to new level; target military members to extort money
By wspa.com- Georgiaree Godfrey
Published: 11/29/2018

COLUMBIA, SC - 15 people from South Carolina and North Carolina are facing multiple charges after investigators say inmates used online dating sites to blackmail military members for money.

The United States Attorney's Office along with the Naval Criminal Investigative Services and the United States Marshals Service were just a few of the agencies at the SC Department of Corrections' Broad River Campus Wednesday morning. Investigators said inmates have been using contraband cell phones to target military men and women.

"Catfishing" is the slang term for pretending to be someone else online and several South Carolina inmates have been indicted for doing just that.

A special agent with the Carolinas branch of NCIS explained what exactly the inmates have been doing behind bars.

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