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Legal question regarding FACEBOOK page??? - SouthernGrits - 03-24-2014 10:30 AM
It is a crime to make a facebook page pretending to be someone else? Using their pictures? I heard this was done and the impersonater got a bunch of people's e-mail addresses this way...then e-mailed the people embarassing photos of the person they were pretending to be. Is this prosecutable? can it be proven? how? are they liable for slander? defamation of character?
- Barry C - 03-24-2014 10:35 AM
> It is a crime to make a facebook page pretending to be someone else?
Potentially yes. Unless it is a parody, it could fall under various fraud and/or misrepresentation theories
> Using their pictures?
Add to that copyright and other intellectual property law issues
> I heard this was done and the impersonater got a bunch of people's e-mail addresses this way...then e-mailed the people embarassing photos of the person they were pretending to be.
I wouldn't be surprised.
>Is this prosecutable?
Maybe. But iwl a prosecutor find it important enough?
Of course there are civil law remedies as well.
> Is this prosecutable? can it be proven?
Generally yes if you can track down the logs of the servers involved, and trace the ip addresses listed there back to a place and time and then a person. Same way it works for illegal downloads.
> are they liable for slander? defamation of character?
if they did those things, sure.