Sentences with phrase «false persona»

A "false persona" refers to a fictional or misleading identity that someone creates and portrays to others. It is a fake version of oneself that may be used to hide one's true intentions, gain trust, or deceive others. Full definition
Online dating scams are making scammers millionaires as they use online dating services to present false personas then get people to fall in love with those personas before asking for money.
The anonymity of the internet lets people be anything they want and often it's a completely false persona.
That same year saw Day - Lewis taking on another character who assumes an outsized and false persona in James Ivory's «A Room with a View.»
His indictment reveals a startling, sophisticated, and sustained campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election through false personas that Russians used to spread divisive political content over social media, among other tactics.
A bad actor or actors used a fake LinkedIn profile and copied pictures from another user's Instagram to create a false persona — and successfully drew more than 1,000 investors into the ICO project, which was called Giza.
Instead, they huddle together in «safe places» and try to have «fellowship» while they hide behind masks and airs and false personas, hiding dirty secrets while foisting impressive / seductive / intimidating / abusive behavior to keep people at a distance, even their «brothers and sisters.»
I'd say the person that contructs a false persona to hide such things is mentally or emotionally weak.
«No one knows you're a dog» is just the start, since any dog able to manipulate a mouse could also contruct a false persona (a chance to find out what life's like as a cat, perhaps).
Not only is a false persona difficult to maintain over an extended period, but it will never be you.
That same FreeDating infographic also shows that catfishers tend to compulsively lie, are addicted to false persona and fantasy, feel unloved or unaccepted, may want to hurt other people, lack confidence, and have been abused or have abused someone else.
In addition to the false persona, you will need to set up a free email at sites.
If they can't do that, maybe they're shy, or maybe they're trying to make up a false persona.
You can't maintain a false persona indefinitely anyway, so why start it in the first place.
Paul Jesson gives a lovely performance as Turner's beloved elderly widowed father, who is content to live with him as his manservant and factotum, and has relapsed into what Turner shrewdly identifies as the false persona of a «dunce» — despite the fact that he taught Turner to read and write.
Cloud isn't a clone, it turns out — he just somehow absorbed the memories of his best friend Zack, then built a false persona for himself.
It also helps to decrease risk of identity theft or other traders using a false persona to trade with on the platform.
Another Initial Coin Offering (ICO) project, called Giza, was revealed to be a scam after the ICO raised more than USD 2 million, used a fake LinkedIn profile and copied pictures from another user's Instagram to create a false persona and went on their merry way with the money, CNBC reported.
Too many people enter the job search thinking they have to put on a false persona that gets them in the door.
I don't care about having folks who don't know me getting to know a false persona... not my style.
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