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$1,143 to London to help a Facebook friend supposedly robbed at gunpoint -- Wait a second...

1 pointsby dominikover 16 years ago

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dominikover 16 years ago
The article describes this as "impersonation" -- but is it?<p>To me, impersonation on Facebook implies putting up an entire profile pretending to be someone else.<p>The article also says "a hacker appeared to steal Rutberg's identity" -- surely his 'identity' wasn't stolen, just his Facebook credentials, and even then, they weren't stolen so much as borrowed temporarily and misappropriated.