Does it matter if she emails from my email? She doesn't have internet at her house, and she is using one of my email accounts for her myspace.

Okay, I will have her do that. It doesn't matter that I am the one that reported it, does it? She was on vacation at the time, though it was been reported on her myspace account of whatever. Thanks for your help. I'll have her email you as soon as possible. Thank you.

Someone has made a profile and they are pretending to be my friend. So far, they've added somewhere around 15 people, others have been added but they listened to me when i told them to delete it. I've messaged all of the people remaining [most haven't replied] and I've posted many bulletins. I have proof that it is indeed a imposter by something that they said in a message to me. I've reported it to myspace at least three different times. All I have recieved is the automatic response, once. I cannot go to the person's parent because the person [who I am 100% sure that it is] is nearly 19 years of age. I, myself, and my friend are both 16. He is an exboyfriend of my friend. I've asked him to delete it and he's denied any connection to it. I don't know what else to do. Can someone help me?

david9, thanks for the kind words. If you don't mind a little feedback, there's no About Us page on your site that tells us the source of the information it provides so that we can gauge how useful the info is. As a visitor, this makes me wonder if it's more an advertising vehicle, maybe like your post here. Pls no site advertisements, people! Thank you,
Anne
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Anne Collier
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Hi, ur site has great information.. and i can show u the same, which is related to the identity safety... In order to protect yourself from identity fraud and name theft, you must carefully protect your personal records, and pursue online activities with caution. There are a number of things to prevent this.

OK, so what you're saying then is someone is pretending to be someone else on MySpace and undoubtedly portraying "themself" as something completely unflattering, sort of a "self-immolating flame."

If you know who the person is who is doing the impersonating, I'm thinking that the recourse could be along the lines of informing that person's parents. They should have some control over their child, and I would think that they wouldn't approve of this sort of behavior, and require that their kid take down the offending site. It may also be possible to approach the kid's school as well, but that's a more blurred route, since it is one of those "grey areas" where schools may or may not be able to control such things.

I think you will get much better and quicker results going through the parents than through MySpace which undoubtedly gets thousands, if not tens of thousands of reports like this daily. After all, there are now more than 100 million accounts on MySpace.

If you're not sure who is doing the impersonating, you might want to write an open email to the possible perpetrators and post it as a comment to their site, as well as to others. They may immediately take it down however. I'd look to see who is commenting on that site, because you should be able to figure out who is doing it based on who is posting and what is posted.

I really think the best way to handle these kinds of cyberbullying/cyberharrassing flames is to get in touch with the parents of the offender. There is obviously a lot going on between the kids that prompted this sort of thing in the first place. By finding out what is going on in real life, you will find out more about what is going on online, and vice versa. Talk to the kid who is being harassed and you will probably learn a lot, and probably a lot more than you wanted to.

I've posted before how this happens. Basically if you're on someone's profile page, and click a link (say to view their pix) you might get what looks to be a MySpace page that says "you must login to do that." Of course you're already logged in, but probably don't think twice and login again, which then takes you back to the pix, etc. What you don't realize is that you've just been *phished* and have given up your login information. Since your login is the same as your email account, you've not only compromised your MySpace account, you may have also compromised your email account (since many people use the same password for both, a practice that MySpace strongly discourages for obvious reasons). MySpace does have a policy and procedure for how to regain your account info. Of course, you could try and use the "lost my password" route and hope that MySpace can send you a new one (which you better change immediately as well as your email password). However, if that doesn't work they ask you to prove who you are, what they call a "salute." Please go to: MySpace Salute FAQ and you will see the information on how to do that. I hope this helps. Regards, Jeff Cooper

I'm new to this page. Does anyone know what MySpace's policy is for matters like this because I can't imagine this hasn't happened to someone else already?