The New Identity Thieves |
| Published: February 15, 2008, 4:30 pm |
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The Wall Street Journal put up an interesting article today about profile thieves. These guys don't want your Social Security number or your bank account information, they just want to be cool. Like you. And they do it by ripping off your social networking profile, word-by-word. A Common Occurrence? If you think that this isn't happening that often, check out the number WSJ is reporting: "A search on MySpace revealed 700 recent comments that accuse others of stealing headlines, user names, backgrounds, etc." I would venture that number is actually much higher, based on a rudimentary search I did myself. First of all, you have to remove people accusing each other of stealing songs. Your profile song is bound to be used by plenty of other people, especially if it's a currently popular tune. Still, my search results (minus the word "song") come back with 968 results from MySpace alone (2030 leaving song in). The results tend to go something like this: "some [ Full article ] |
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