Billy went on a date dressed real fancy, spent a lot of money and had a condom in his wallet. Sadly he got catfished and came home with less money and condom still unopened.
Several cloud bots, often from through the interaction of several different Tech subcontracting organizations or search engineoptimization, gives an illusion of an active meet-up group in a locale.
When you get behind someone with few groceries in line and someone else comes along and says "I'm with them" and piles a bunch more groceries on. You saw a glimpse of one shopper, but what you got once you were in line was something entirely different.
“Wow, your labradoodle is really cute. What’s her name?”
“Thanks, her name is chastity she’s actually my ex-brother in law’s dog”
“Did you jut puppy catfished me?”