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'Catfished' by the smell of rotting flesh
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Being "catfished" by fake profiles is common not just on the Internet, but in nature, too.
Culprits include "corpse plants", which smell of rotting flesh and reek of deceit. The scent of putrefied flesh emitted by the flowers of plants like the Rafflesia and the titan arum is "false advertisement", said Nanyang Technological University (NTU) botanist Shawn Lum.
