Facebook - someone is impersonating my daughter

wannabecontent

Good morning. I wonder if someone is able to help me. A person who is calling herself a girl's name has taken my daughter's photos on Facebook and is using them as herself. Posing as my daughter (picture - not name) she has added lots of random young men and is telling them things like 'you look hot'. She is also saying that she lives in the same area as my daughter. My daughter has just turned 18. My daughter thinks this person made out to be someone she knows so that she would add her as a firend and then changed her name - if it even is a girl. My daughter only adds friends. I have spoken to the police who cannot help as they say no crime has been committed and lots of friends have reported this person but she is still on Facebook. I am very concerned as all these men are thinking my daughter is this person. Any help or advice would be very, very helpful. Thank you.

Elle7

Have you reported the profile yourself?
There's an option somewhere for 'this person is pretending to be me'. I'd also report every picture they are using of your daughter, with a brief explanation, and contact facebook through the help menus if you can.

What an odd situation! The above should get you started, though.

Emsky*

I would keep reporting them to facebook, I've seen this before and if enough people report then they should remove them. I hope this helps.

tangerine2

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/help/?faq=174210519303259

I would follow this route. You have to be logged in to read it.

dixiebb

yes, def. report immediately to FB; not sure how quickly they will look into the matter -- they are somewhat lax on moderation sometimes.

wannabecontent

Thank you for your repiles - I have reported it to facebook and so have lots of friends using the person is impersonating someone I know but 'she' is still there! I will just keep getting everyone I know to report it and hopefully facebook will get the message and close her down! The dangers of facebook

MercilessKiller

Hmm let us know who it is and the MSE community will perform a Lulzsec style attack

wannabecontent

Thought of that but then everyone will know who my daughter is!!! Would love everyone on MSE to report her!!!

RussJK

It would be ironic if she met a nice young man you approved of through all this

Hope you sort it, don't doubt it'll make you worry. Probably some jealous girl she knows in person. Alternatively, her identity was just chosen at random for some phishing attacks such as described in this thread:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/43966796#Comment_43966796

Be good if you could see a history of account name changes in facebook, rather like how you can on eBay (sometimes quite revealing!).

shaun_from_Africa

Thought of that but then everyone will know who my daughter is!!! Would love everyone on MSE to report her!!!

But if you gave the facebook id of the person who is using your daughters picture, they wouldn't know your daughters name. (but they would still see her photograph)

RussJK

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

But if you gave the facebook id of the person who is using your daughters picture, they wouldn't know your daughters name. (but they would still see her photograph)

Well if she's still friends with this person, then you'd see her in the Friends list.