MyCrimeSpace

MaliceSpace

by Trench on March 31st, 2006

MySpace.com users targets of malice:
Yet another story about what happens when you post your personal information online…

When Jessica Koehler made her account on MySpace.com, she thought it was a good way to keep in touch with family and friends — and to make a few new friends along the way.

She recently found out it was also a way for someone to hurt her.

Koehler filed a report with the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office Monday claiming someone had posted an unauthorized site on MySpace.com, using her personal information and photographs of her and her 2-year-old son.

The fake site characterized Koehler as a bad mother whose family is like those seen on the Jerry Springer television show and someone who wants to sleep with older men.

The site even reveals where Koehler works and talks about the father of her son. She said she doesn’t know who would do this to her, but suspects it has to be someone who knows her, since most of the information posted was personal.

Officials at MySpace.com could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Koehler’s report was not the only one of its kind filed with the CCSO on Monday.

Nicole Toth, 23, filed a similar report with the same deputy later in the day. Someone had taken her MySpace information, burned it onto CDs and has been leaving them in various places, even as far away as Sarasota Mall and a Venice gym.

“Someone called me and told me they found the CD at the Sarasota Mall, so I went to pick it up,” she said. “Later, someone else called saying they found it at a gym in Venice and wanted to arrange somewhere for us to meet. I told them no.”

Now Toth is also taking extra precautions at work, since her place of employment was also listed on the CD.

“I’m a waitress and I had to tell the hostess that if someone comes in looking for me, to tell them I don’t work there anymore,” she said.

Both Toth and Koehler said they are now nervous about placing personal information on the Internet, although Koehler said she isn’t going to remove her real MySpace site.

“I’m going to block my profile though, so only friends can see it,” she said.

Toth is planning to remove hers.

Share This

Related Stories

No related posts

POSTED IN: Fakes