Fake Social Media Accounts Incite Police Investigations

With identity becoming increasingly tied to social profiles, there can be serious consequences for creating fake or parody accounts on social media.

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Facebook has been your ‘real identity’ online for years now. Google+ links all your accounts back to your real name and shut down pseudonym accounts for a while. These developments can have serious implications if someone is reported missing or if a public figure is impersonated.

In Moulins, France, a woman reported that a two-year-old boy was missing after his apparent great-aunt reported that she thought he was kidnapped. The town’s authorities went as far as sending divers into a nearby lake to search for the child.

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