Welcome to Strangers from KCOW's independent producer project and StoryCentral.org.

My name is Leah Tau.

On the last episode of Strangers, we featured a story about V.S. Dobbs, who used a fake personality for an online project and then found himself impersonated by a stranger who pretended to be his fake self.

It was a case of double catfish, if you will.

Except I didn't know that term until you guys started sending me your stories of double catfish, if you will, except I didn't know that term until you guys

started sending me your stories of being catfished. I mean, I'd heard of the movie catfish,

but I didn't know that this had now become shorthand for the phenomenon of tricking people

by using a false identity on the internet. And I guess that happens a lot.

It even happened to the musician Moby, whom I've known a little bit for a long time.

And I happened to run into him a few weeks ago.

It's really interesting, this theme of strangers.

Yeah, tell me.

Okay, here's an odd one. So about six years ago, five or

maybe six years ago, I got a random email from a woman and she said that she had gotten my

email from some friend of hers who just had my email lying around. And she just was interested in a piece of music I had made early in my career.

And she couldn't find it anywhere. And it was a very obscure piece of music. And I was really

flattered that someone even knew about this obscure piece of music. So I sent her an MP3 of it and said,

oh, here you go. Here's the MP3. Thanks for

asking about it. Then she wrote back and we started emailing. It turned out she was an architect

here in Los Angeles. I was living in New York. She'd gone to Brown University. I wanted to go to

Brown. And the more we emailed, the more I realized, like, wow, she's great, you know, like really

smart, architect. Then she sent me some pictures of herself and she kind of looked like

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