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Debbie MacPhee

Debbie MacPhee

Mother and online safety advocate who shared her family's experience of catfishing and sextortion on the Blethered podcast.

Aug 3, 2026

Blethered

Blethered

Catfishing: Sextortion, Blackmail & Suicide

Aug 3 · 53m

Sean McDonaldHOST
14:46
... your kinda story, what we had discussed kinda loosely.
Debbie MacPhee
Debbie MacPheeGUEST
14:50
Loos- yeah.
Debbie MacPhee
Debbie MacPheeGUEST
14:50
So I was, I was sitting at my lunch, and I get a phone call from my son, and he's in a state.
Debbie MacPhee
Debbie MacPheeGUEST
14:56
And my son's quite calm, and he's like, he's not a, he's not a worrier type of, type of boy.
Debbie MacPhee
Debbie MacPheeGUEST
15:05
And, um, he calls me in, in a, in a sheer panic.
Debbie MacPhee
Debbie MacPheeGUEST
15:07
It was like sheer panic.
Debbie MacPhee
Debbie MacPheeGUEST
15:09
And he's like, "Mum, mum, mum, something's happened.
Sean McDonaldHOST
16:38
Yeah.

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