Hello Iam having the same problem but a little different, Just recently I had found myself in a stuck situation where i believe my exbestfriend has made a fake myspace of me with my picture and name and everything. I have been sending thousands of salutes and they wouldnt reply. Iam very scared and outraged over this. I dont know what this person could be doing possibly threatening people she dislike over the net. I cant do nothing about the profile or see the friends they have because its private. Pleasssse help me out.

HI. my name is Jackie and i recently found out that some guy has made a fake myspace with all my information on it and some explicit pictures of me that he had gotten ahold of.. He is talking to all my friends and pretending to be me... Now the entire world has seen these bad pictures and i cant get them off. I have done everything it says on myspace. such as the salute and have written plenty of emails and have not gotten anything back.. Please please help me and delete this profile. I called the cops and they said its something myspace has to do. There is no phone number i can call to help. Please help! the web address that is on the fake myspace is www.jackieself.com . i will attach another solute to this email. If anything please just reply back to me so i know this isn't just going up in the air!! Thank you Jackie self valrico,Florida. 18yrs.old

I am having the same problem...someone has created an imposter profile using my pictures...I have deleted all of my pictures off my own page and myspace still has not replied to my mails...it has been two weeks...please help me.

The nasty Imposter Profile has been deleted...thanks for any help that was given to me by you guys....

kimbev69, I’m so sorry to hear about what you and your son are going through. I can’t make any promises because we don’t work for MySpace, but want you to know that your message was passed on to our contact there.

That said, I know MySpace gets a lot of emails about harassment like this and so often the communication falls under First Amendment guidelines. In several cases involving actual criminal behavior on social sites, courts have treated the sites as "Internet service providers," which federal law sees more as pipelines than publishers - like phone companies. If a person makes a call while pretending to be someone else, the phone company is not held liable for the imposter caller’s threats or derogatory statements. Still, it’s hard to think of social networking sites as phone companies because the communication can become so public, as in your son’s case. Social networkers who encounter harassment like this usually have to seek offline legal help to get restraining orders, etc.

Thanks for posting.

Maureen
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Someone is pretending to be me - what do I do?

Have you followed these instructions on myspace? I am sure you have but please check.
Solution:

In order to verify your identity, please send us a "salute":

This means we will need an image of yourself holding a handwritten sign with the word "MySpace.com" and your Friend ID (your Friend ID number appears immediately after "friendID=" in the web address/URL when viewing your profile). We can then remove the profile that uses your identity without your permission.
Please be sure to include the web address/URL to the profile in question when you send your salute.
If the profile is an extremely obvious attempt to be cruel/false, you may not need to send a salute. Sending a salute will help expedite things, though!
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I've tried everything, my son graduated this year and with school over the girl who is now a senior, i guess if myspace doesn't do anything about it then i'll report it next school year.

The 1st detective i spoke to told me to ask myspace to take it off and if they didnt' then to call them back and he'll have me and my son come down to file a harassment report and identity theft possibly. well after 5 emails to Myspace from me and 4 from my son himself who works 55 hrs a week and still no response from myspace except "have legal authorities contact us otherwise we cannot help you." i contacted the police yesterday spoke to a different detective and he asked 1st whether my son had a myspace when i answered yes then he said sorry there is nothing we can do and it is not harassment even though this person is trying to get into cyber arguments by puting comments and sending emails to my son's actual friends that think it's him.

this girl is so wicked that she is even trying to get her current b/f into a fight with my son by putting "***K JAKE" (her new b/f's name) in the salutation of the profile. when i mentioned that to the 2nd detective said "well that's myspace for you, you shouldn't let your son on it" it was almost like "you deserve it and your son does too cause you got myspace profiles."

i don't think this is fair...at all...this girl has threatened his new girlfriend in emails threatening to put a razor in her ***** and slice her open....i have a copy of this email but i guess that this type of cyber threat is ok......according to WEST MILFORD POLICE>