Legal question regarding FACEBOOK page???

[SouthernGrits]

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]

> 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.