Thursday, February 5, 2009

Fears of impostors increase on Facebook

While reports of fraud have been common in phony phone calls and e-mails, similar cases are now surfacing on social-networking sites. In Seattle, a hacker appeared to steal Bryan Rutberg's identity to get money from his friends by toying with their emotions. In Wisconsin, police accuse an 18-year-old man of posing as a woman to get high school boys to send him naked photos of themselves.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/05/facebook.impostors/index.html?eref=edition

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