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Typically, a Perverted Justice volunteer creates a false online profile, posing as, say, a 13-year-old girl on MySpace.
"Offenders can mistakenly think that, by using false online profiles and creating websites under a false name, their offences are untraceable.
A so-called catfish is the engineer of the false online identity, a reference to the bottom-feeding, whiskered water dwellers.
The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as "sock puppets" – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same.
An Oregon teenager who made a false online threat against a Westchester County high school was ordered yesterday to pay police overtime costs of $3,160 and sentenced to home confinement for three months.
But it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to distinguish between organized political "sock-puppeting" — the term for creating a false online identity — and a private citizen's exercising free speech online.
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Whilst it's easy to say go get'em in this case (and personally I hope they do given the circumstances,) any ruling that using a false identity online constitutes a federal felony as internet fraud could have a chilling effect for online anonymity depending on how the court rules.
It said: "There are no false reviews online about WAE+ for which WAE+ is knowingly responsible.
On her part, the surrogate had adopted a false persona online and deceived the couple to elicit information about them.
The police across the country have announced the arrests of hundreds of other people accused of spreading false rumors online.
In a further example, HSBC's credit-card business is for sale.After several false dawns, online banking has grown steadily if modestly over the past five years.
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