Online and Lying

Emily meets a victim of identity theft, a convicted hacker, a scammer and the police, to help unravel the world of cyber crime, and she makes an important decision about what to do about being trolled.

Emily goes on a romantic blind date with one of her fans and meets a catfish victim. And a detective reveals how many love cheats are using the web to start affairs.

To learn about the psychology of living online, Emily visits a psychotherapist and meets a family torn apart by harassment, a selfie-obsessive and a woman with agoraphobia who's living her life online.

Emily questions if her own online behaviour is normal and meets a YouTube star, a self-confessed Facebook fraud, a digital agency, and gets a visit from the Police.

Emily Hartridge investigates why our ONLINE lives are so different from our REAL ones, and what affect this has on our selves and our friends and family. She meets with victims of identity fraud and catfishing, the police, cyber-criminals and people who are Online and Lying in different and interesting ways. Over the course of her journey Emily goes online dating, reports a crime, gets a criminal to apologise, visits a psychotherapist and explores how her own experience of being an online celebrity has affected how she sees her self and is seen by others.