One crazy story” is how it describes itself in the first scene.
The nearly ten years of deceit, manipulation, and coercion that Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare portrays are not crimes, even though the story is genuine.
In the UK, it is not illegal to use phony internet identities to fool people into thinking they are in a relationship, a practice known as “catfishing.”
The star of Netflix’s documentary Sweet Bobby, Kirat Assi, tells News: “People ask me, ‘How can you be that stupid?’ You receive that question all the time. However, we [victims] are all intelligent. The criminal has simply gone above and beyond.
Considered to be the most well-known catfishing scam in the UK, it tells the tale of Kirat, a radio host and events assistant who was tricked into thinking she was dating cardiologist Dr. Bobby Jandu online from 2009 until 2018.
The offender spent years cultivating the fictitious acquaintance under the guise of a real person Kirat had met briefly, and in late 2015, the relationship turned sexual. They even got engaged.
