CT Attorney General Asks Facebook About Fraud
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has asked Facebook to provide information on how it detects and disables fraudulent accounts, after a state legislator complained that someone stole her identity to scam her friends.
Connecticut state Representative Kim Rose had a bad Facebook experience. Someone created a page using her name and photos without her consent and then requested $650 from her friends. Although she allegedly reported the case to the social network at least a dozen times, the site took “too long” to address her concerns.
So now Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen is putting pressure on Facebook to provide information on how the site detects and disables fraudulent accounts, claiming that there is a “real and immediate danger of financial fraud and identity theft associated with this scam.”
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