It's in facebooks interest to have fake profiles as are other social media sites like Instagram and Twitter. It's a great way to inflate your user numbers and because they sell this data to advertisers without having to verify the validity they are also able to charge a decent rate to reach these mass of profiles with advertising. I don't use those social media platfroms anymore only for personal use and if I didn't make a living using them i'd probably remove myself from it completely.

I had someone who claims they from Spain comment on one of my steemit posts a while back and we got to chatting for about 2 weeks but her posts were always just photos via steepshot no real content and when i asked why she doesn't post more fleshed out content like blogs or vlogs she gave some long convoluted answer i then decided to reverse search a few of the images and found it was of a girl in America whose a model and I hit that person up on Instagram to verify the story. she said it wasnt her and its not the first time her pics were used for catfish profiles. I then went back to the profile and linked a few of her posts to the original images, he/she then removed the images from the posts and I flagged all the highest paying ones! But then saw it doesn't really do much and moved on lol

Steemit may not be the best place for a catfish to hang out but can still suffer from catfishing unless it has some sort of KYC/verification process.

How did you find out about your catfish? Did anything wierd happen with the profile?