FB and identity theft...it happened to me...

**Eagle5US** · 04-27-2015, 13:55

Facebook almost cost me my marriage this morning.

All "security" protocols were in place. Everything was "safeguarded" as much as allowed on the site.

A woman in North Carolina sent a message to my wife, my wife's friend, my daughter, and my mother-in-law that this woman and I had been in an online relationship for more than a year. When I asked her for money and she refused, and I subsequently refused to meet her in person, she got angry for being strung along and decided to "expose me" to my wife, friends and family.

THANKFULLY, I was able to find and message the woman, and she was kind enough to call and speak with my wife. There is still a person using my identity, all my photos, information about my life pretending to be me on at least one dating website, "delightful dot com"

My home is on the mend, a tough thing for newlyweds who have both been cheated on in the past to go through so early in our marriage....but on the mend none the less.

Be forewarned on Facebook - my account is on it's countdown timer for deletion.

Remington Raidr · 04-27-2015, 15:01

At least half my criminal defense clients had the drama start on FB. It is the root of all evil.

**PRB** · 04-27-2015, 15:37

Glad you are sharing that story....maybe some can wise up about using that site.
Good how it worked out though and sorry you had to go thru that crap.....that has to be a real gut sinking feeling with some asshole using your identity.

SF_BHT · 04-27-2015, 15:56

Great news that you got it fixed..

This is why I do not do Facebook.......

mark46th · 04-27-2015, 16:06

Glad everything is straightened out. Facebook should post the names of the lowlifes who do things like this.

twistedsquid · 04-27-2015, 16:53

My strategy is never appear to have a life worth stealing.

trinity · 04-28-2015, 09:03

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Originally Posted by mark46th

Glad everything is straightened out. Facebook should post the names of the lowlifes who do things like this.

Facebook doesn't care about stuff like that. All they care about is advertising dollars. The more people who are on the site, and the more "marketable" information they can collect about their users, the more money they make.

There are a couple of (closed) groups that I admin, and spammers are always sending "join" requests to get in and post their spam. The accounts are always fake, and pretty obvious, so I took to reporting them to Facebook as such. After a while, Facebook quit taking my reports, apparently under the belief that I was filing frivolous reports because there were so many (often several per day).

Scimitar · 04-29-2015, 02:52

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Originally Posted by Remington Raidr

At least half my criminal defense clients had the drama start on FB. It is the root of all evil.

Interesting

Care to elaborate Remington?

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Remington Raidr · 04-29-2015, 09:44

Don't really want to post about active cases, but I did have one where the guy met the 21 year old (going on 13) hottie on FB. This young lady was having boatloads of fun by inviting over half the city to knock boots. When she testified at the first hearing I had to laugh at the expressions on the faces of all the coppers sitting around waiting for their cases to be called. We were ALL thinking I'da hit THAT! Now, at this point we all knew her true age was 13 but, well, I know it's not right . . . but I understand. My guy claimed he never went over there though the rest of the city did. My guy said she really pressed him to come and git it, so he thought she was a pro, and he don't PAY for it. The judge though he was being a dick for not taking the state's offer of a misdemeanor like the rest of the city did, so the judge, sua sponte, ups his bail a week before Christmas, just to git his mind raight, doncha know. I was able to get the bail back down so he was out for Christmas and we won at jury trial.

Six months later (if he had been convicted he would have still been in custody) he and a partner decide to rob an extra-legal pharmacist who was a backer of the 2nd amendment and blew his partner away. He is now sitting on felony murder. Even when I win, I lose.

Generally, the problem is people within driving distance become keyboard commandos and disrespect each other, leading to face-to-face confrontations involving brass knuckles, tasers, and real, big, M1911's.

I shouldn't bitch, it keeps me in the chips, but you will never see me on FB for any reason.

Scimitar · 04-29-2015, 11:11

Wow,never would have thought...thanks for the background Remmington

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Bleed Green · 04-29-2015, 21:03

I am glad that everything has turned out well for you Eagle. I had my identity stolen last year by somebody that hacked my Discover account. They ran my card up to the max then figured out how to use it to con my bank into paying it off then maxed it out again. All told about 70K worth of fraud and 2 weeks of no money as my bank took their sweet time restoring everything. Discover asked if I wanted to prosecute them if they were arrested and I said hell no I wanted to execute them upon arrest. I am still waiting for that call.