somebody created a myspace account in my name

speedracing944 · speedracing944's Garage

So here I am studying for finals and I get a call from my wife yelling at me for having a myspace account up without here knowing. In the description it says I am single and looking for intimate relationships. It had some details only a couple of people know about and somethings a person could only know if they were in my garage. For about 30 minutes she thought it was me who put it up but everything was spelled correctly and there was words used which are not in my vocabulary. (I am a horrible speller

)

What is weird is when I went to view the account linked from my best friends account it was showing the person was online. I guess my wife sent the person with the account a nasty message (she thought it was going to me

) before she called me. I bet the person was online reading it right then.

Anyways I sent 2 emails to myspace asking for the profile to be removed.

I texted my friend and he added 'me' as a friend to his account and just thought it was me.

Speedy

Danny_Ocean · 05-12-2008, 04:29 PM

Who'd you pizz off lately? And why is your wife (I'm assuming a grown, mature woman) cruising "MySpace"?

speedracing944 · speedracing944's Garage

she was looking up our friends who just moved back from very rural Alaska and 'my' profile listed under our old hometown where or friends live. good point though.

I can say she was cruising looking for a hot young lad to get with and saw her perfect match and clicked on the persons profile only to find out it was my fake one

JK

Speedy

legion · 05-12-2008, 04:55 PM

I just had to check MySpace and Facebook to see if there were any accounts in my name. Nope. None.

I know the feeling though Speedy, like when I started getting collection notices for a (former) friend's student loans. Or when my credit card info was stolen last year....

LakeCleElum · 05-12-2008, 08:13 PM

Beware - If your friend created this account, he wants your wife mad at U, so he can get close to her!!!!! Seen it 100 times! Be very careful!

911Rob · 911Rob's Garage

consider it a compliment

keep the wife on her toes too

Buckterrier · 05-13-2008, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by speedracing944

So here I am studying for finals and I get a call from my wife yelling at me for having a myspace account up without here knowing.

Til death do us part

Bill Douglas · 05-13-2008, 02:08 AM

Good skills Speedy. The next time I get busted trying to hook up with a hottie I'm going to say that too.

onewhippedpuppy · 05-13-2008, 05:17 AM

Wife.............MySpace.............uh oh.

Super_Dave_D · Super_Dave_D's Garage

Come on dude - she busted you and posting here trying to throw her off track isnt going to help ya!

Rot 911 · 05-13-2008, 05:45 AM

Pics of wife needed to make an accurate assessment of what she was doing on myspace.

KFC911 · 05-13-2008, 06:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Kurt V

Pics of wife needed to make an accurate assessment of what she was doing on myspace.

What Kurt said....put the pics on "her" new myspace site

Noah930 · Noah930's Garage

And if there are any pics of her you're not sure are MySpace appropriate or not, feel free to run them by the collective voyeurism, I mean wisdom of this board first.

speedracing944 · speedracing944's Garage

Hello,
After investigating this matter, we have found that there is no evidence the user in question is pretending to be you, using your pictures, or violating the Terms of Service. For more information on our Terms of Service, go to: http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.terms

Thank you,
MySpace.com
Customer Care
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here is their response. this is messed up. Somebody can use allot of my info and first name and even contact my 'real' friends but myspace can not do anything about it? BS

Speedy

Matt Meyer · 05-13-2008, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by speedracing944

Hello,

here is their response. this is messed up. Somebody can use allot of my info and first name and even contact my 'real' friends but myspace can not do anything about it? BS

Speedy

I don't know the details and I am not a lawyer or even internet savy, but I am looking into options of preventing harassment of someone I know via text messages. So do your own research.

Assuming you are not just covering your a$$ and,

Assuming the person on myspace is "pretending to be you" this is serious IMHO. It could be considered "cyberbulling" or even fraud or "identity theft". Verify they are pretending to be you and are not your long lost twin separated at birth or some other strange coincidence. Do not harass or have others harass this individual on your behalf, incase you are wrong.

From what I can tell these are relatively new problems, so many jurisdictions are just now introducing laws to stop this. Fraud is as old as time, so there is always that one, and it is probably the easiest to prove. My understanding is if they have one actual picture of you and are claiming to be you, or use an actual email address, phone number… of yours, it could be fraud .

You perceive this as a malicious act. IMHO, you should verify this is not a friend pulling some prank, and then you should contact the police, local, state, federal… until you find one with jurisdiction. I would contact myspace again and ask them how you go about proving who you are and that this person is “fraudulently” representing themselves as yourself. Use the word “fraud”, “identity theft” and/or “cyberbulling” in your email to let them know you are serious.

To what ends is this person poising as you? Nip this before you find out why.

rammstein · 05-13-2008, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by speedracing944

Hello,
After investigating this matter, we have found that there is no evidence the user in question is pretending to be you

I can almost see the trap door from the ceiling opening and a bunch of monkeys with glasses and laptops rushing to investigate your complaint.

"Oooh oohohohooooo ooo AHAHAHAH"

Make a MySpace account called MySpaceAdmin and put pictures of the CEO on there.

Victor · 05-13-2008, 07:57 PM

How do we know this is the "real you" posting here and not the alleged imposter?

KFC911 · 05-14-2008, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Victor

How do we know this is the "real you" posting here and not the alleged imposter?

Yeah, since your wife wouldn't post pics of herself, you "must" post pics of her in order to prove you are indeed not her. As Noah said, we are a very voye...I mean "wise" bunch and refuse to be taken in by an imposter

!

speedracing944 · speedracing944's Garage

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Originally Posted by Victor

How do we know this is the "real you" posting here and not the alleged imposter?

easy. there are a couple pelicans I have met in person (legion and procon) who could ask a question about something which happened while we met up which only the 'real' speedracing944 would know.

Speedy

Bill Douglas · 05-14-2008, 08:58 PM

Would you please look in a mirror and identify yourself.