97 percent of catfishing accounts claim to be female.

According to the study 83 million Facebook accounts are faked or duplicate in nature. Not only are those accounts fake but the average catfish will use 136 tags per ever four photos, while real users choose just one tag per four photos.

73% of catfishes passed off photos of another person (or of multiple people) as themselves.
69% used a name other than their own.
64% of catfishes have been female.
53% of catfish victims have been female.
25% lied about their occupation. (No, they’re not really models.)
24% pretended to be the opposite sex online. More than two-thirds of these catfishes have been women.
15% of the online relationships featured on Catfish have been same-sex couples.
15% of catfishes knew their targets in real life.
11% of Catfish episodes ended with the couple still interested in pursuing a romantic relationship.
11% involved some degree of mutual catfishing and dishonesty on the part of the “victim.”
11% of the supposed catfishes did not lie to their online significant others—that we know of.