Someone with even less of a life than I have (and that's going quite a ways in the wrong direction) apparently has nothing better to do with their time on Facebook than set up fake accounts posing as me, tricking my friends there into giving them access and then proceeding to make trash talk to and about people I know and work with. I knew it was just a matter of time before Facebook led to something unpleasant for me. It already has for so many other folks, why should I be any different?
So far this person has confined their antics to my co-workers which leads me to believe it's in fact someone that I work directly with on a daily basis. I don't make the name of the company that I work for known anywhere online and I rarely discuss my job at all when I'm not actually at work. The messages aren't reaching random people who happen to work at the same company as me, they're being sent to the people I work directly with daily. They also mention details that only someone I spend time with at work would have any knowledge of so that narrows down the possibilities considerably. This isn't some random hacker, it's someone I know and deal with in my working life. I don't expect to find out who it is any time soon and even if I do I'm sure that proving it will be nearly impossible.
The bottom line is this: If you're one of my friends (most likely a co-worker) on Facebook and you get a message from someone claiming to be me and that somehow my contact information got messed up, they're lying - it ain't me, just deny the request and ignore it. If you get a personal message from someone claiming to be me who then insults either you or someone else or makes any kind of rude or off-color remark it's not me. I don't use Facebook for that sort of thing and anyone who knows me can attest to that.
Facebook - making identity theft easier for creeps everywhere since 2003!
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