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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: Inside ‘Sweet Bobby’ – The most bizarre catfishing story in podcasting

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Warning! Major spoilers! DO NOT listen unless you’ve already finished Sweet Bobby. How well do you know the person you love? The huge hit podcast Sweet Bobby charts a barely believable story of catfishing and psychological manipulation, in which a British woman called Kirat Assi discovers that her online romance is not what she thought. In a treat for all Bobby-heads, journalist and presenter Alexi Mostrous talks to Naomi Smith about uncovering this astonishing story. How did THAT PERSON do THAT THING and get away with it? And what did the experience do to the woman who lived it? “This story read like a novel that would have been rejected for being too unrealistic.” “It's easy to set up a fake Facebook profile. It's harder to set up 35 different phone numbers.” “Kirat's community wasn't just close, it was closed off.”  https://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/sweet-bobby/ Written and presented by Naomi Smith. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

0:22.0

Phoenix Group is the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business.

0:28.0

Search Phoenix Group living longer.

0:30.0

Pets brings so much joy.

0:32.0

From those happy greetings at the door to the warm cuddles on the sofa

0:36.7

so give a little love back with dental life from Purina a range of delicious chues made for dogs and tasty snacks for cats that help clean and support your pets, teeth and gums, essential for their overall well-being and a happy, healthy life. They give you plenty of smiles so

0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker with me Naomi Smith as we enter the darkest months of the new year it's useful to have

1:15.6

something to binge listen to as we lie around scoffing the last of the Quality Street

1:20.9

and wondering when, if ever, it will be safe to socialise again.

1:25.6

And so if you've not done so already, then I can't recommend enough,

1:30.0

binging on all seven episodes of the podcast show Sweet Bobby from Tortoise Media,

1:35.4

which tracks the most incredible story of a decade-long catfishing exercise.

1:42.1

For those of you who don't know what catfishing is, it's when

1:45.0

someone creates a fake online persona to deceive a victim often but not always

1:50.0

via dating sites or other social networking platforms. Sweet Bobby follows the story of Kirat,

1:57.6

a single woman in her early 30s, successful broadcaster and very supportive friend, who finds herself falling for a man called Bobby,

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