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Archive for the ‘Fakes’ Category

May 5th, 2008

Fake Mercadeses

MySpace Profile In Beating Case - Whose Is It?:
In an act reminiscent of the Megan Had It Coming hoax it seems that there are people on the net who are posing as Mercades Nichols. Nichols of course is the alleged ring leader in the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay.
One MySpace called MercadesTruth seems to […]

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April 3rd, 2008

Ill. teens cited for fake MySpace

Mattoon teens charged after creating fake MySpace page for teacher:
Three teens from Mattoon High School in Illinois have been given disorderly conduct citations for making a fake derogatory MySpace about one of their teachers. Before everyone starts the weeping and gnashing of teeth that means they were given a ticket.
Anyway local police found the three […]

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March 20th, 2008

Moroccan Facebook fake freed

Moroccan king pardons man convicted of usurping prince’s identity on Facebook:
I’ve posted about Fouad Mourtada before. He was the 26-year-old from Morroco who was imprisoned for making a fake Facebook profile of a Moroccan prince.
Luckily Morocco’s King Mohammed has pardoned Mourtada along with 565 other pardons.
The official says the pardon is one of 566 […]

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February 29th, 2008

Facebook denies turning in Mourtada

Facebook Denies Role in Morocco Arrest:
Facebook is claiming that they gave no information to the Moroccan government as to the identity of Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada was jailed for three years for making a fake Facebook of a Moroccan prince.
Brandee Barker, a Facebook spokewoman, said in a statement that the company’s privacy policy and terms of […]

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February 29th, 2008

Moroccan bloggers stand up for Facebook imitator

Moroccan Bloggers Protest Jailing for Facebook Prank:
Bloggers in Morocco are up in arms about the jailing of Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada is the man who was sentenced to 3 years in prison for making a Facebook profile that imitated Prince Moulay Rachid. As far as I know it wasn’t a parody but rather a tribute to […]

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February 26th, 2008

Morrocan jailed for fake Facebook

Moroccan jailed for royal Facebook ‘joke’:
This is a story for all those people who complain about free speech rights being violated when their precious little snowflakes get disciplined for making libelous fake MySpaces of people.
In Morocco 27-year-old computer engineer Fouad Mourtada was sentenced to 3 years in prison for making a fake Facebook of King […]

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February 22nd, 2008

Fake MySpace leads to expulsion, lawsuit

Teen MySpace Hoaxer’s Lament:
An unnamed 13-year-old from Ohio was expelled from Hillside Middle School in Parma, Ohio after he created a fake MySpace of Hillside Middle School Principal Jeff Cook.
The MySpace profile, which was headlined “Your Princeypal,” did not carry Cook’s name, but it included his photo and identified him as the Hillside Middle School […]

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February 9th, 2008

Charges not dropped for fake MySpace in PA

Judge: MySpace charges stand:
A Pennsylvania Judge refused to dismiss charges against Kevin Andrew Burd. Burd is accused of setting up a racist MySpace under another teen’s name.
Burd has been charged with identity theft, reckless endangerment, harassment and disorderly conduct, and for being an all around assclown. Ok, I made that last part up.
Burd is […]

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December 9th, 2007

Another tragic MySpace hoax

MYSPACE HOAX’S TRAGIC TWISTS:
In the wake of the Megan Meier tragedy the New York Post has run an article about another MySpace hoax that happened in 2006 that left one teen dead, a father on trial for manslaughter, and his son in hiding.
Aaron White was a black teen who befriended a car club consisting of […]

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October 11th, 2007

Fake MySpace of Asa Coon

Asa Coon MySpace page a fake:
In case you haven’t heard Asa Coon was the 14-year-old gunman who shot 4 at SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland. He killed himself before police could apprehend him. (Check out my other blog CrimeNe.ws for all the details.)
Anyway some 19-year-old attention whore from Utah decided to make a fake MySpace attributed […]

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July 6th, 2007

In today’s craigslist not really a hooker news

Realtor portrayed as online sex peddler:
Miami-Dade area realtor Debbie Blasberg received hundreds of calls from men looking for someone who promised ”you’ll go home with a smile” for the right price. It wasn’t about real estate either. Someone posted an ad on craigslist using Blasberg’s picture and cell phone number claiming that she was a […]

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June 2nd, 2007

14-year-old busted for posting nude pic of teen on MySpace

Teen charged for posting nude photos of girl on MySpace:
A 14-year-old boy from Uniontown,Pennsylvania was arrested on charges of sexual abuse of children, identity theft and harassment after posting a nude pic of a 15-year-old girl on MySpace. The kid received the picture on his cell phone then posted the pic on MySpace pretending to […]

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April 9th, 2007

More on the Pa. Principal’s lawsuit

Pa. principal sues former students over fake MySpace profiles:
The other day I posted about Eric W. Trosch and the lawsuit he was filing against some students in regards to some fake MySpaces that were made about him. This recent article explains what exactly was on those fakes…
According to the suit, which seeks unspecified punitive damages, […]

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March 29th, 2007

Fake MySpaces net cyberstalking charges

Students charged with cyber stalking:
We have another MySpace related story that happened in my back yard. Two students from Mooresville High School in North Carolina were arrested for misdemeanor cyberstalking after creating fake MySpaces of their assistant principals.
They portrayed one of the administrators as a pedophile, police said. They also used racist words.
Police were […]

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March 27th, 2007

St. Hugo’s students create fakes

MySpace profiles mock St. Hugo:
The students of St. Hugo’s have struck back. In wake of St. Hugo’s recent policy of having their students banned from MySpace even at home, the students have posted not one but two fake MySpaces for St. Hugo’s.
School officials were not amused to find the bogus Web pages that ridiculed the […]

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