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Someone is using my sisters pictures as their own and adding young boys

  • 27-10-2015 5:26pm
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    rawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭


    Hi all. It came to my sisters attention that another Facebook account (set up 9 hours before she saw it) was using photos of her as their profile/cover photo. The account has a girls name and their age is 17 (my sister is 20). They have about 500 friends on the account now. The account has blocked my sister, myself and a lot of her friends. We have all reported the page but FB keep saying it doesn't violate their guidelines. I think this is because we are reporting the page as "pretending to be me or someone I know*, whereas technically she's just using photos that are not their own. It's been reported at least 30 times now. The creepiest parts are:

    A) The profile set it's location to somewhere very close to where she actually lives, which worries me in case some weirdo recognises "her"
    B) A lot of the friends added are young girls and boys, also some older people from the Middle East and stuff.
    C) There's some conversations on the page between other accounts eerily similar to theirs (set up recently, tonnes of friends, young girls), and other photos they have posted are fake. For example "Enjoyed my Eddie Rockets" with a photo I reverse image searched and it is stolen from online.

    What can we do about this?? How can we remove the photos/shut the page down/report it? Best case scenario it's someone creating a real looking profile and adding friends with the goal of spamming them. But worst case scenario it's a pervert or pedophile who will be private messaging young girls/boys.

    Any advice???


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