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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Catching Online Predators With David McClellan From Social Catfish

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

David McClellan is the CEO and founder of Social Catfish (@socialcatfish), a website that helps people to find out if they are being scammed or catfished. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about how his website helps to stop online scammers, his craziest story of catching an online predator, his thoughts on the Mante Te’o Netflix documentary called “Untold”, how to protect yourself when you are on a dating app, books that you should read and much more! For more information about Social Catfish visit http://socialcatfish.com For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet CVV CLIPS: youtube.com/CVVCLIPS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are going.

0:01.3

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blit!

0:07.9

Oh, man, welcome back to another audio adventure here on Insight.

0:14.0

I am CBV, Chris Van Fleet.

0:16.5

Thank you so much for being with us wherever you are and whatever you happen to be doing right now.

0:21.6

And is it just me?

0:23.1

Is it just me?

0:24.0

Or has this year just flown by?

0:26.8

You blink and summer's over.

0:29.1

Now we've got three months until Christmas.

0:31.2

And they were actually putting up Christmas decorations when I was in Costco the other day.

0:35.0

And then boom, just like that, it's going to be 2023.

0:38.6

So this is just a little reminder to make the very most of every day, every week, and every

0:47.0

month left in the year.

0:49.3

Because it's up to you.

0:50.2

Do you want this to be the best year of your life?

0:53.6

You still got time to make that happen.

0:55.2

Or is this just going to be just another year of your life? And every single day, you can make

1:01.8

the decision to make that happen between now and December 31st. So just a little something to chew

1:07.6

on as you listen to this. Really, really interesting conversation

1:11.8

today. I'm sure you've seen the MTV show Catfish or you've heard of the term getting

1:17.4

catfish when someone is pretending online to be someone that they're not. Well, David McClellan

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