Daimo B
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Registered: 20th Mar 00
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Monring all.
theres a chap at work who's had his account cloned on Facebook. New account, same name, all his pictures etc. Obviously he's quite concerned, but facebook is about as helpfull as a chocolate teapot.
We've searched the help area nad found teh section about hacking accounts, but it doesn't actually help as its a duplicate account someones created.
How can he go about getting it shut down?
Taaaaa
(PS deffo not me, who the hell would want to copy my stuff  )
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
Location: Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk
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Missus had this happen recently.
All we did was report the page using the link at bottom. Also got as many people we could to report it
Why do people do this??
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Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
Location: Essex
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Its Social Engineering. If someone was to create an account exactly the same as yours and start adding all your friends, most wont even question it, one or 2 may.
The amount of information you can then gather is unreal, and people won't question you as you have loads of photo's of yourself and them, correct school info etc.
You can then go on their pages and find whether people have added their parents to it, grandparents (as mothers maiden name is usually a security question), pets names, dob, some people are stupid enough to name their banks in their status..
Dont need to be a genius to see where it goes from there.
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Daimo B
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Registered: 20th Mar 00
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Cheers boys.
He's only young bless him and got all worried the profile created tells his true life, and not the life you hide from your parents (we all have things our parents don't know ).
Weird thing was, its was using his photos, adding his friends, but used a different name, AND left a mobile on there.
A chick answered the phone
Poor little sod He was getting well paranoid
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DaveyLC
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Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
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Come on.. Tell the truth! Its your profile isn't it? and someone has posted all about your homosexual conquests in graphic detail.
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Psycho ex?
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
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It's J Silvas new identity
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MJFF88
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Registered: 30th Apr 08
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I did this once to see if my lass was lieing to me, turned out she was. This is the reason I don't add randomers and keep my privacy settings high
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Daimo B
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Registered: 20th Mar 00
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Im not cool enough for someone to want to duplicate my profile.
We tried finding me (I tried finding him) so I could look at this profile. No matter how many times I typed in his name, (Or he typed in mine) we still could see each others profiles. Had to go to a mutual friend and add that way. FB is gay. I miss loads of friends updates.
I reckon like Fro suggested, someone who knows this lad has created a fake profile, putting an ex's number on there. He's gonna call her at lunch, see if he knows the voice.
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Tom G
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Registered: 4th Aug 08
Location: Cheshire
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quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
It's J Silvas new identity
Weird but it suggested friends j da silva mou... blah keeps coming upon mine
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Could be the nut nut that has set it up or summat, women can do some very strange things.
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SR91
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Registered: 21st Jun 08
Location: Lancashire.
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This happened to my missus but it were a girl down in wales that did it, she used the dup' account to chat lads up (J da silva style) she met up with a lad and the next day she got murded in a hit and run, they managed to track the missus and she had to be questioned by police... LOL !
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SR91
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Registered: 21st Jun 08
Location: Lancashire.
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She used her facebook pics/details on bebo though!
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