In 2009, Kirat Assi got a message on Facebook from her cousin's ex-boyfriend JJ who was desperately trying to win his former girlfriend back. The two briefly messaged until Assi's cousin, Simran Bhogal,

Kirat Assi (also known as Harkirat Kaur Assi), a 44-year-old radio presenter and marketer from West London, is at the center of the new Netflix documentary Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare. The documentary examines Assi’s 10-year online relationship with someone she thought was Dr. Bobby Jandu, but ended up being a member of her family.

As a documentary film shining a light upon arguably one of the worst cases of catfishing to have come to light in recent years, Netflix’s ‘Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare’ is simply baffling. That’s because it carefully delves into the tale of Harkirat “Kirat” Assi,

While Bobby is a real person, the individual Kirat had been communicating with was someone in her close circle who orchestrated what Tortoise Media described as the “most sophisticated catfishing operation” they had ever encountered.

My Catfish Nightmare chronicles the harrowing eight-year ordeal of Kirat Assi, a thirty-something marketing executive from London, England who fell prey to the online deceit now known as "catfishing." Catfishing involves an individual inventing,

My Sweet Bobby has left viewers gobsmacked and asking why Catfishing is not a crime. An expert at Birmingham City University explains the law