Dead Soldier's Pics Fail To Woo Women On Facebook

A New York man is accused of using pictures of a dead army soldier to seduce women on Facebook.

A fake Facebook profile used pictures of late U.S. Special Forces soldier Roberto Sanchez to seduce women on Facebook, until one woman recognized the photos on a military website and alerted Sanchez’ family and friends.

Setting up a fake profile to make friends or hit on other people is already lame, but impersonating a soldier killed in combat to do so? That’s a hard one to label. But that is just what “Dylan Sorvino” did, a fake New York soldier who went to law school and was then drafted to Afghanistan and Iraq.

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