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henwy
May 5, 2009 12:07 PM
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Don't you think it might be prudent to redact names too? There's no proof so far that those named have anything to do with any of this and you just popped your names up willy nilly without confirming any of this.

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KMan13 still wants a Pontiac G8
September 21, 2009 8:36 AM
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@henwy: she probably made up the story about being hacked anyways, to get in less trouble.

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outoftheblew
May 5, 2009 12:16 PM
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How come this isn't a story about how 1) your Facebook account can get hacked, or 2) you may not want to friend people you don't know (even if she's cute) if you have personal information on your Facebook account?

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NobleCrayfish
May 5, 2009 6:35 PM
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@outoftheblew: I agree with your question. It doesn't look like this person is an actual debt collector unless CBV Collections is now employing 12-year-old girls.

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The Bigger Unit
May 5, 2009 2:58 PM
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@outoftheblew: Because (1) The account wasn't hacked; if you read the article, s/he says s/he simply knew the password to the account, and (2) What Moosehawk said.

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Moosehawk
May 5, 2009 1:48 PM
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@outoftheblew:
Because
1) It's unlikely your Facebook with be \"hacked.\" and

2) That's pretty much a no-brainer. You only want to add people you're friends with on any social networking site. Skiptracers and anyone that may be out for your contact info simply needs to add you as a friend. Not only that, but there are Facebook apps that people will add for their cuteness, but they're actually designed to harvest contact info from your page and your friends' pages.

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mangelo
May 5, 2009 12:17 PM
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I am convinced of a few things, after reading this article. A: facebook = lower intelligence. Its kinda like enabling ebonics for the majority (rather than the minority talking jive) B: best thing I ever did was get rid of my facebook/myspace accounts, because something about this whole ploy is amazingly illegal and/or illicit.

and C: well, I dunno. It's fun to play games on the intertubes, but it's more fun to keep yourself safe.

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johnva
May 5, 2009 9:15 PM
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@mangelo: I tend to agree. I have a Facebook account, but I only use it essentially as a way for people to contact me who don't know my email address. I don't post \"status updates\" or obsessively update it or watch my friend's pages. I think it's more like HEAVY Facebook use = low intelligence.

But I'm also sort of an elitist about websites. I think the best places on the Internet are places that don't really appeal to the masses, because it serves as an automatic filter on the stupid. The more popular a site gets, the stupider the level of conservation on it, in general.

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Christie Porter
May 5, 2009 12:56 PM
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@mangelo:

You don't make any sense. How could facebook be for 'lower intelligence' because of this article?. I know you had 4 friends, 1 of which was your mom, when you had an account... but really don't be bitter about it. I don't know how a social networking site could possibly be for stupid people, you don't have to act like an idiot just because it's FB. I know a lot of people do, but your post just seems completely unwarranted and random.

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bohemian
May 5, 2009 2:28 PM
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@Christie Porter: Maybe because I was able to use it to backtrack a bunch of kids our teenager had been running with and getting in trouble with. I found enough information between facebook, myspace and one of the other social networking sites to get full names, phone numbers, locations, who knew who.

I went from having a couple of first names to piecing together the whole sordid mess in about two weeks. With what I found out I could probably land about 20 people in jail right now.

Beware of what your putting online, your stupid if you just put everything out there and let anyone see it.

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Christie Porter
May 10, 2009 6:54 AM
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@bohemian: I guess if I don't do anything wrong I don't have much to worry about. People can do whatever they would like with my favorite movie list thank you very much! ;) I actually think that my future employers would be pleased to hear about my great taste in films and music and facebook would HELP me get hired!

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johnva
May 5, 2009 9:27 PM
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@bohemian: Oh, and also I sometimes think that Facebook, Myspace, etc are all part of a sinister conspiracy to implement pervasive surveillance of the population. That sort of information that you were able to find would be extremely valuable to law enforcement, corporate marketers, even religious kook proselytizers if they were organized enough to exploit it. They will be, eventually. People need to be very wary of who they are giving that sort of information to and how locked down they have it as far as privacy settings.

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synergy
May 5, 2009 8:39 PM
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@bohemian: I agree with you on that. Although they don't have to be teenagers to be that stupid. Plenty of adults have no concept of the fact that the internet is public unless there's something in place that specifically lets you lock up your info.

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Jeremy82465
May 5, 2009 1:57 PM
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@Christie Porter:


Not that I agree with mangelo, but a study shows that college students with facebooks tend to get .5 to 1.0 GPA below those without, so while he may just be trolling there was a bit of truth to it.


[www.time.com]

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HeyBickley
May 5, 2009 2:04 PM
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@Christie Porter: Just because you log in from Facebook doesn't mean it's your job to support it and insult the people who don't like to use it. \"lol get a life\" is rarely a good comeback, no matter what the original comment.

As to whether Facebook supports a lower intelligence curve - probably, as its main demographic is teenagers. A lot of older folks are starting to join,though and if you use it solely to have some fun and talk to people you don't see anymore, it's not so harmful.

Just, yeah, don't accept random friend-vites from hot chicks. Even if you aren't in collections.

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Rectilinear Propagation
May 5, 2009 1:14 PM
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How could facebook be for 'lower intelligence' because of this article?

@Christie Porter: That's a reference to Jenny's grammar (or lack thereof).

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PunditGuy
May 5, 2009 12:53 PM
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@mangelo: Okay, okay! I'll get off your damn lawn.

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outoftheblew
May 5, 2009 12:18 PM
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Well, I guess #2 is kind of mentioned at the end. But the tone of the article assumes everything you've been told about Jenny is true.

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pmcpa4
May 5, 2009 1:15 PM
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@outoftheblew: I have to agree with you here. She clearly changed her act half way through the \"interview,\" who's to say that she/he is still lying.

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LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave
May 5, 2009 12:25 PM
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I doubted this person is a anything supervisor after all the obvious spelling mistakes, such as \"coarse\" instead of \"course\".

As for this being a skip trace thing, WOW. How much information do you people put online? I guess I am lucky that I have dual online ID's, and there is really no easy way for someone to track my online identity to my true one. I also don't friend every person who friends me on any service, especially if I don't know them.

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sam-i-am
May 5, 2009 5:04 PM
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@LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: Paranoid much? Who cares if your information is online? It used to be in the phonebook.

Anyone who really tries can find my name, address, phone number, previous residences, etc. Who cares? Ever since that information has been online I haven't had a single terrorist show up at my door to kill me.

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HeldForRansom_GitEmSteveDave
May 6, 2009 2:59 AM
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@sam-i-am: Yes, I am. But I still keep four webcams running 24/7 at my house. [www.jerseycam.org] My big thing is people knowing my true opinions and thoughts. In todays day and age, having naughty pictures is nothing compared to comments on a blog that may seem \"out of line\".

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synergy
May 5, 2009 8:41 PM
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@sam-i-am: I guess you were foolish in the stone age of phonebooks too. That information of my family's wasn't in the phonebook either.

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Rectilinear Propagation
May 5, 2009 6:50 PM
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Ever since that information has been online I haven't had a single terrorist show up at my door to kill me.

@sam-i-am: Yeah, but these people did start getting calls from debt collectors.

They probably could have tracked them down anyway but that doesn't mean you have to make it easy for them.

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shepd
May 5, 2009 4:01 PM
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@LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave:

Most call centre supervisors are at about this level. Trust me, I've dealt with them.

The managers of some call centres can have an equally poor grasp of the language, as well. Although, to be honest, mine didn't--instead they had a ridiculously poor grasp of both HR and employment law.

Call centres are the \"McJob\" of the tech industry.

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el-brazo-onofre
May 5, 2009 3:46 PM
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@LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: It doesn't take much to add to the skip trace databases, which already contain rich personal information. Friending someone in Facebook would just help a collector keep tabs on them.

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korybing
May 5, 2009 2:27 PM
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@LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: I really hope that this was a hacked account, because it makes me angry at society if someone can get to a supervision-level job while being barely literate and unable to clearly communicate via text.

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gStein_*|bringing starpipe back|*
May 5, 2009 4:51 PM
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@korybing: ugh, i couldn't even read the chat transcript...

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HeyBickley
May 5, 2009 2:07 PM
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@LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: Unfortunately, supervisors can often be more dimwitted than people who work under them. I've worked the office rounds a few times in my short life, and the mass emails the bosses put out are... headache-inducing to say the least.

I will say Not-Emily is worse, though. /shudder.

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Jim Topoleski
May 5, 2009 12:26 PM
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Who just randomly says yes to everyone who friends them on facebook? Hell I dont even say yes to half the people I DO know who friend me like the assholes in college and high school who now want to be your \"friend\".

(yes yes the irony of this post is not lost on me)

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Rectilinear Propagation
May 5, 2009 12:56 PM
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@Jim Topoleski: I got into an argument with someone about this once. Woman gets a friend request from some dude who bullied her in high school (w/o going into details it was really bad) and wants to know if she should friend him.

I'm like, \"How is this even a question, of course you don't!\" But this other guy says that she should because maybe he wants to apologize and it's not like he can hurt her through Facebook. Completely ridiculous.

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johnva
May 5, 2009 9:11 PM
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@Rectilinear Propagation: Totally agree. If they have an apology to make, they can make it over private message. No need to \"friend\" them.

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Jim Topoleski
May 5, 2009 1:06 PM
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@Rectilinear Propagation: I got into the same argument once myself. I am usually the one who rolls over and lets bygones be bygones, but in all honesty if they are going to apologize for treating me like shit in school, they are going to have to do it to my face personally, and not on some website.

Needless to say no one on my friends list ever treated me like dirt.

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DoubleBaconVeggieBurger
May 5, 2009 2:56 PM
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@Jim Topoleski: If they really want to apologize, and the only method they have available is Facebook, that's what the message function is for - anyone can send you a message, not just your friends. I only accept friend requests for people I actually want to talk to.

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speedwell (!)
May 5, 2009 3:17 PM
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@Ayarkay: Folks, sociopathic abusers are people who don't care that what they did hurt you. Everything is all about them, and honoring their friend request just makes it seem like what they did to you was OK. They victimized you once, and you're arguing about whether you should give them a chance to do it again. You think they want you as a friend? A proven victim, maybe. Idiots. Kick that trash to the curb already and get on with your life.

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korybing
May 5, 2009 2:28 PM
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@Jim Topoleski: I had the same experience with facebook. Every single awful person from high school suddenly friended me like they totally don't remember how horrible they were to me. It happens in real life when I visit my hometown, too. It's just like \"Honestly? You don't remember how much you hated me?\"

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kylere
May 5, 2009 12:29 PM
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If you add people as friends you do not know you are an idiot, if you add people you barely know, you are an idiot.

My sympathy does not apply to people this dumb.

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sam-i-am
May 5, 2009 5:05 PM
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@kylere: At the same time, you should be able to have some level of confidence that a company with your personal information isn't going to abuse it.

I said \"should be able to,\" not \"should.\"

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Cyberxion101
May 5, 2009 3:32 PM
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@kylere: Mine, however, does. What may appear to be common sense to you and I may not even occur to the next guy. Besides, as long as a lesson was learned here, then it's all the same to me.

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RandomHookup
May 5, 2009 12:32 PM
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But if you don't fear skip tracers, keep befriending random cute chicks.

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HFC
May 5, 2009 12:35 PM
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It's easy to set up various friend lists on Facebook. For example, I have lists for family and people I work with. Only those two groups have permissions to view my personal and contact information. People I went to school with 20 years ago can send me a message if they want to contact me, I don't need everyone getting my e-mail and phone numbers.

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Snakeophelia
May 5, 2009 5:00 PM
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@HFC: I don't put my email and phone number on FB, even for my friends, and I've got my profile information set so that there are plenty of things that even friends can't view. For things like Pet Society (online game), my friends from there can't view anything except a basic information page about me.


On the other hand, the oversharing tendency of idiots certainly helped me track down a fraudulent seller on eBay who posted her cell phone number to LiveJournal, so I say, let the idiots continue to be idiots. It helps the rest of us!

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quail
May 5, 2009 12:45 PM
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Lots of people will befriend strangers just to watch their 'friends' number go up. Curious, though, as to who hacked Emily's fake Facebook page. That's a great story in itself.

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korybing
May 5, 2009 2:31 PM
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@quail: Some people are really obsessed with numbers and stats like that and will do anything to see them go up.

From the looks of that conversation I wouldn't be surprised if it actually was this Emily person hastily trying to cover her tracks with a \"hack\" story. I also wouldn't be surprised if she was legitimately hacked.

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Lippmann
May 5, 2009 9:03 PM
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@korybing: I wouldn't be surprised if it was an ex.

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LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave
May 5, 2009 1:03 PM
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@quail: I bet it's either

A. Someone she tracked/traced, or
B. A co-worker who was pissed that Emily was pulling in such good numbers, and Emily was stupid enough to enable stored passwords on her browser, and this idiot shoulder surfed her password, and waited for a day for Emily to be off, and pulled this.

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Lameth
May 5, 2009 2:04 PM
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@LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: To me it sounds like someone who got drunk and decided it would be fun to tell all of those people how they'd been scammed. This last bit was fiction she attempted to use to cover for it.

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tc4b
May 5, 2009 12:59 PM
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I find Facebook to be a good way to keep up with friends I lost touch with after college. If I emailed pictures of my kids to everyone on my friend list individually, it would take hours.

What about that is 'lower intelligence?' You're painting with far too broad a brush.

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Radi0logy
May 5, 2009 1:05 PM
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Wow shes hot, I wonder if she wants to be friends with me...

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y2julio
May 5, 2009 1:18 PM
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Isn't this a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act?

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Tambar
May 5, 2009 1:26 PM
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I suspect this is in Canada, so the FDCPA doesn't apply there.

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Russell Miller
May 5, 2009 1:29 PM
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I don't accept facebook friends unless they're friends with someone I'm already friends with or I know them offline.

I've rejected a few that way.

It's not foolproof and there are a few people I don't know well on my friends list, but at least I know why they added me.

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TCama
May 5, 2009 1:29 PM
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Two things:

1 - This definitely violates Facebook's TOS. Providing false information. Doing \"misleading\" things. Probably some other things, too.

2 - I'm not sure about Canada, but this sounds like it might violate some debt collection laws. Can anyone confirm this?

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Anonymous
May 5, 2009 9:28 PM
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@TCama: It looks to be illegal under BPCPA \" In collecting or attempting to collect payment of a debt, a collector must not(a) supply any false or misleading information,(b) misrepresent the purpose of a communication \"

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pecan 3.14159265
May 5, 2009 1:30 PM
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Sometimes I'm looking at my friends' profiles and I'm stunned at how much information they put online. Phone numbers, addresses, and really personal information about themselves...I don't mean favorite music or movies, but really personal information like where they go every day, their routines...why people don't seem to understand this is a problem is beyond me.

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sam-i-am
May 5, 2009 5:20 PM
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@pecan 3.14159265: Seriously - who cares if your phone number or address is online? What's going to happen? Are terrorists scanning the nets for personal addresses and running planes into people's houses?

I'd be willing to bet that if I had your full name I could probably find your address too.

So what's the problem? There is no possible way you can keep your information under lock and key - with public databases, online footprints, insecure service providers, credit card companies, retail stores, whois, geneology records, search records, political donation records, etc. It's better to embrace the future and accept that your information is out there then to live in fear.

What do you honestly think is going to happen if someone has your address and phone number? The answer is the same thing that they're already doing, because the people who you don't want to have it already do.

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Russell Miller
May 5, 2009 2:14 PM
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@pecan 3.14159265:

I don't think it's a problem because 1) my profile is set to private, and 2) many of the people whom I've added (I'd say about 95%) would have ready access to that information whether or not I posted it there. I'm choosy about ho I accept as a facebook friend, but once I do, I consider them just that and don't see the point in hiding much.

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HeyBickley
May 5, 2009 2:09 PM
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@pecan 3.14159265: With FB's privacy settings, it IS possible that you're on a list allowed to see those details, while random schmoes aren't, but I guess that depends on how much faith you put in some of your FB friends.

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P.T.Wheatstraw
May 5, 2009 1:33 PM
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Could be an ex-boyfriend (ex-girlfriend?) as well.

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B
May 5, 2009 1:36 PM
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What? Next you're going to tell me the cute chick offering \"free web cam\" shows is just a shill for a porn site.

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TakingItSeriously is a Technopile
May 5, 2009 1:42 PM
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@ pecan 3.14159265 (reply not working)

Agreed. People are sharing way too much on these sites.

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Russell Miller
May 5, 2009 2:18 PM
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@TakingItSeriously:

True in many cases, but you're generalizing. If you're careful about who you add and who you share with, it can be a good tool.

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pecan 3.14159265
May 5, 2009 1:46 PM
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@TakingItSeriously: I think what gets me is also that it seems that if you only make friends with people you actually know, they should know enough about you to not have to guess where you live. If they know you, they probably have your phone number, or can message you to ask. If they need to send you mail, they can ask. I don't understand why people take on such a risk when they put their personal information on Facebook.

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h3llc4t, breaker of office dress codes
May 5, 2009 1:51 PM
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@Jim Topoleski: I'm with you. Clicking a few buttons on a social networking site isn't going to make up for asshattery in the past.
I recently got a request from one such classmate who now listed her religion as \"karma\". Right. Hope that's working out well for her, considering what a shebeast she was in high school.

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Jesse
May 5, 2009 1:54 PM
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@pecan 3.14159265


Another thing that concerns me are those third party Facebook applications. Who knows what those applications designers who have access to your information are using it for.

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jthacker
May 5, 2009 1:59 PM
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Not sure if it applies here, but a lady was prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. ยง 1830 for violating MySpace's TOS and setting up a fake profile to harass someone...and I'm fairly certain these tactics wouldn't adhere to the FDCPA. It's definitely worth checking into if you were contacted by \"Emily\" or \"Jenny\" or any other social networking skiptracer, as each violation of the FDCPA enables the consumer to receive up to $1,000 in statutory damages, in addition to actual damages and attorney's fees.

And no, I'm not an attorney, just a daily consumerist follower.

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rawsteak
May 5, 2009 1:59 PM
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i thought facebook was the anti-myspace, where you just randomly pick up friends for no reason... that'll teach you to be so nice to \"pretty\" girls!

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Newvox
May 5, 2009 2:15 PM
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600 people falling for a honey trap. Luckily for these geniuses this \"babe\" was only looking to collect unpaid bills from them.

Sorry to wade in with the depressing comment, but the world is a nasty place. Anyone who goes through the trouble to unilaterally establish contact with you is looking to get (or take) something FROM YOU. Be it a warm feeling of satisfaction, or all the money in your bank account, they want something. You come second.

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Sean Masters
May 5, 2009 2:18 PM
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So, don't friend people on Facebook unless they message you first explaining who they are? Got it. (Rocket science, folks, rocket science)

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Hello_Secaucus
May 5, 2009 2:18 PM
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This seems like yet another reason not to have a Facebook account.

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AbsurdHero
May 5, 2009 2:28 PM
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This may make me sound cold, but I think if you have a collection agency after you, you have more urgent concerns than whether that cute girl you met on Facebook is who she seems. I normally assume hot chicks I don't know are spambots.

Stuff like this is why I don't use my real name online.

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bohemian
May 5, 2009 2:37 PM
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This whole trend is disturbing as far as what collection agencies have been up to lately. The woman a few days ago that was being publicly smeared by a car loan company, now this nonsense. Before someone goes on a rant that anyone who owes money deserves everything they get remember that there are tons of fake collection scams, zombie debt and other related fraud. Recently collection agencies have been going after people for other people's debts, dead relatives and others they don't actually owe.

They need to update FDCPA to include some of this kind of thing and increase the fines. I would love to see the fines coming out of the FTC rather than the courts.

Some of the people I have known who did collections and enjoyed it were really amoral deranged and slightly sociopathic. These are not people you want following you.

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savdavid
May 5, 2009 2:50 PM
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Talking to strangers online is a gamble, that is for sure. Proceed at your own risk.

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HogwartsAlum
May 5, 2009 2:53 PM
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\"of coarse\"
\"haha no worries\"
\"I'm bored of this\"

What an idiot.

I'm not on Facebook so I'm not sure how this works. Random people you don't even know can friend you? Do you have to approve it before they can see your page? If you do, and they are jerks, can you block them?

@korybing: If people in my high school who treated me like crap wanted to friend me, I probably wouldn't do it. I have no desire to talk to those people. Let them come up and apologize to me if I deign to attend a reunion.

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j-o-h-n
May 5, 2009 3:47 PM
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@HogwartsAlum: Yes, friend requests you get have to be approved before they \"happen\". And, you can reject them or just ignore them. You can also unfriend people later.

You can control what of your info is visible to who (everybody, friends, friends or friends, just you, etc).

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HogwartsAlum
May 5, 2009 3:30 PM
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@HogwartsAlum:

OOHH!!! Reply is back!! THANK YOU!!!! :D

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Jessica Haas
May 5, 2009 3:09 PM
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As messed up as the whole thing is, this reporter sucks. \"Jenny\" told him time and time again that she's not Emily and he keeps asking her questions, like she knows anything. I wouldn't be surprised from the spelling/grammar, mannerisms, and naivete about how the world works and how cruel it can be, if this turned out to be a teenager.

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chrisjames
May 5, 2009 3:09 PM
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Skip Tracer? I'll be damned if that doesn't sound like some sci-fi B-movie law enforcement official, arguably the best kind of law enforcement official. I'm imagining it as something like a bounty hunter that hunts time-traveling criminals (it's better than \"Timecop\").

Finding out that the name is already taken for debt collection is probably the second biggest let down of my life (the first being that I'm not a time-traveling bounty hunter).

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1234tu
May 5, 2009 3:31 PM
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So what? I mean, the lender is entitled to be repaid. If it was my money I would do everything I could to collect also.

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Trai_Dep
May 5, 2009 3:35 PM
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Okay, this might work pretty well for the average debt-dodging scalawag. But shouldn't they use a fake boy - after subtracting around 10 virtual years - to go after the Conservative \"moral values\" debt-dodging scalawags?
They can go for the double-entendre by naming him \"Skip\".

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Kaellorian
May 5, 2009 3:37 PM
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What? The credit-card-chomping bridge troll picture that used to grace this site wasn't available for copying?

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Trai_Dep
May 5, 2009 3:38 PM
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Irony alert: from the transcript, \"Emily\" doesn't trust anyone online.

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u1itn0w2day
May 5, 2009 3:55 PM
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These collection agencies will try anything and try to put a warm & cuddly spin on it .


I recently read an article about deceased relative debt and these agencies were contacting the relatives directly rather than going to the estate and they said they actually get people to send in money because they feel bad or guilty abour their deceased's unpaid bills .


Even the article said you are under no obligation to pay a deceased's relative debt unless it comes from the estate .

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Anonymous
May 5, 2009 4:23 PM
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Five Words: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act18 USC 1030 (a)(4): knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period;

Someone want to contact the Justice Department?

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jhpope
May 5, 2009 4:36 PM
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Emily's poor understanding of the English language concerns me

\"2:09pmJenny: your a photographer, not a reporter\"

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Perdin Atrocious
May 5, 2009 4:37 PM
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According to Vancouver law this is illegal regardless because:


Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act
[SBC 2004] CHAPTER 2


Part 7 - Debt Collection


Division 1 - Prohibited Debt Collection Practices


False or misleading information and misrepresentations


123 In collecting or attempting to collect payment of a debt, a collector must not


(a) supply any false or misleading information,


(b) misrepresent the purpose of a communication,


(c) misrepresent the identity of the collector or, if different, the creditor, or


(d) use, without lawful authority, a summons, notice, demand, or other document that suggests or implies a connection with any court inside or outside of Canada.


From [www.bclaws.ca]

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valthun
May 5, 2009 4:57 PM
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You know, the only friends i have on facebook are actual friends and family. There isn't anyone that I don't know in my list of friends. So if some stranger sends a friend request, why let them in?

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coraspartan
May 5, 2009 5:06 PM
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@valthun: Same here. If I don't know someone, I don't accept their request. All of the people on my friends list are actual friends and family of mine.


Someone who I met ONE TIME kept sending me friend requests and I kept ignoring them; finally I blocked her. Why would you keep sending a friend request to the same person over and over--if they wanted to accept you as a friend, they would have done so the first time! *rant over*

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Duckula22
May 5, 2009 5:11 PM
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This must violate FB's TOS. If it doesn't, the TOS should be updated.

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Sunny Yeung
May 5, 2009 5:20 PM
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Here's an idea: Don't friend random, unknown people. For me, I do not add people as friends unless I've seen them face-to-face three times.

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FuryOfFirestorm
May 5, 2009 7:01 PM
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On MySpace, half the friend invites I get are from bikini clad chicks I don't know, trying to be the next Tila Tequila. I just delete them-if these girls really knew me, they would know they're barking up the wrong tree!

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synergy
May 5, 2009 8:35 PM
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All my stuff is locked up private on FB. No one can search me and I have to know someone AND like them to make them a friend. Hence why I have 24 people on there, not 1018. :-p

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Brian W.
May 6, 2009 2:52 AM
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I wonder if they could be doing this on twitter as well as facebook.

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Anonymous
May 6, 2009 3:59 PM
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I used to do IT at CBV Collections, in Vancouver. Here's the deal. - Emily Scarfo is real. She's the Skip Trace supervisor there. - When I left, websense blocked facebook for all except the Execs, and I heard later the Skip Tracing department was granted access too. - I know Emily. She's just your average mid 20's woman. Reasonably intelligent, and the interview just doesn't sound like her. - As for who created the profile, it may have been her, or one of her Skip Tracers. The thing is, that company pays its employees peanuts, and so would attract not-the-best of employees, especially the Skip Tracers. We're talking late teens/early 20's lazy young women. No post-secondary education or anything. Seriously, that whole department was a hen fest, with drama you'd see in high school. I can see one of her subordinates somehow getting the password for the account, and then doing that to spite her. - I can't see it being a violation of any of the Consumer/Debtor protection laws. It would seem to similar to receiving the collection notice letter for someone who used to live at your address. Yeah, you know the person owes money, but you don't know how much or to whom.

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