imagine either some nerd herd of a geeker sitting at the computer MB'ing either that or some SOB that is just as big as a house and cant move anything except fingers on the keyboard and has found a way to get their jollies, seeing as though real life won't give it to them. When I noticed that all of the friends that the person has are all friends with Chinos though, it kinda tells me they hacked him to find his friends and are targeting them. I already got one person responded and thanked me for the heads up.
It's definitely a cancuncare facebook thing. Most of my friends on facebook are people we have met on trips. That is why I have facebook so I can keep in touch with them but it is weird that she is adding friends. The other day it was only the two mutual friends. Now is is 8. Just worried that if you add her you give her access to your computer. Never know, there has got to be some motive for using other people's pics.
It's easy. It is all about hacking. Some people do it for the cheap thrill like spying on an ex or trying to figure things out about an "enemy". this person I can almost guarantee is doing it for spam or identity fruad. If they can pretend they are you they can befriend all of yours. Once they have them as a "mutual friend" it makes it much easier for them to dig through the encryption codes to find personal info on the friends. Once they have that they can pretend they are that person and start selling off email addresses or even private picture to sites. it is all no beuno!
Nadene has 7 friends and 5 of them are apparently mutual friends of mine. Certainly it's annoying, but I wouldn't worry about it too much. I kind of respectfully disagree with sweetchildomine, there's no real benefit to be gained by her/him/it doing this.
Think of it though steve. If you were a hacker and a poor one, you would have a time trying to gain access to peoples private info like email and phone numbers and pictures that are considered "private" and locked through the facebook privacy settings. If you can get people to believe that you are someone else like Nadene has, you can gain peoples trust and allow you access to that information by simply asking for their friendship. then you can see that kind of stuff and sell it off to the highest bidder. It is a form of hacking but not in the usual way. It is more like identity theft really.
I see where you are coming from, but really they would have to be a complete idiot to spend the time and effort to gain possibly a handful of emails and phone numbers if they wanted to use them for nefarious reasons. Websites currently offer harvested email addresses at a rate of $39.99 per million. To put that in perspective the entire cancuncare email database of almost 25,000 users emails would be worth about one dollar per sale if I were to sell them. Obviously, I never would! Far more likely, just some weird person who is trying to provoke a reaction. Annoying, upsetting maybe but not a serious risk in my opinion. FB should take this stuff down though - I see the account is still live. Food for thought: http://mashable.com/2012/08/02/fake-facebook-accounts/
I would assume most of the fakes would be people wanting a FB account, but not wanting to give Zuckerberg access to accurate personal information. Like my one or three accounts.
well I think that lots of FB accounts are just like My, Partydollbrewster FB.. only people on there are the people I have met at TTR.. so in a sense its fake.. even though its picures of me at TTR.. but I have a family account as well.. so I would guess lots of people have 2 accounts if not more. as long as you have an email address for each account its easy..:huh:
