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  • Florida Man Used Fake Facebook Accounts to Lure Minors for Sex, Brought Baby Along for Meetup

    A Florida Man is facing charges of unlawful sexual activity with a minor after police say he used Facebook to convince underage girls to meet him for sex.

    The scheme was a bit more elaborate than just contacting young girls on Facebook and making a pass. 44-year-old Tadd Link Clukey reportedly created multiple fake profiles on the social network, posing as young, attractive girls with names like ‘Amanda Panzone’ and ‘Kaitlyn Beth’.

    According to reports, Clukey would then send out random friend requests and once he got a few girls to bite, he’d begin establishing a relationship with them over Facebook.

    Eventually, the conversations moved from Facebook to the telephone.

    After that, Clukey, posing as the girls, would gauge their interest in having sex with an older man for money. According to WSVN, Clukey was successful in convincing at least two young girls, aged 15 and 16.

    For his first actual meetup, Clukey apparently brought a baby with him.

    From WSVN:

    One of Clukey’s victims was a 15-year-old girl who said she accepted a random Facebook friend request from another girl named Kaitlyn Beth. The girl agreed to meet an older man. The girl said she entered Clukey’s car where he asked her to remove her panties then penetrated her digitally. She told police Clukey did not do anything else because he had a baby boy “in a car seat in the rear seat of the truck.”

    Months later Clukey contacted the 15-year-old again, this time taking her to a motel where they had sex. According to a police report, Clukey drove to a pharmacy to purchase an emergency contraceptive pill and told the girl to take it.

    The Sun-Sentinel has the info on the other case:

    On August 10, Clukey again posed as a girl, this time named “Amanda.” When a 16-year-old girl answered his friend request on Facebook, he asked her if she was interested in having sex with an older man for money, police said.

    Clukey picked her up near her home. He drove her to a hotel in Margate where they had sex, then paid her and dropped her off, investigators said. They repeated the encounter a week later, according to police.

    We’ve seen this exact M.O. play out in other cases of sexual misconduct involving Facebook. Usually, the predator will create multiple fake profiles – oftentimes pretending to be people closer to the targets’ age – and use them to gain some level of trust with the victims. After that, they’ll swing the idea of sex. We’ve seen this before – an older man pretending to be a young girl, who then brokers a sex-for-cash deal with an “older man”.

    Image via WSVN

  • Taliban Using Blonde, Buxom Beauties to Gain Intel on Facebook

    In many ways, it’s one of the oldest tricks in the book, but it’s being used in a very modern way. I’d like to think that most people realize that the super hot girl you meet on the internet is likely not super hot and probably not even a girl. But apparently, the Taliban is cleverly (?) fooling Australian soliders into giving away intel with fake Facebook profiles tied to buxom blonde bombshells.

    The report comes from the Australian government, who says that Australian soliders have been tricked with “fake profiles – media personnel and enemies create fake profiles to gather information. For example, the Taliban have used pictures of attractive women as the front of their Facebook profiles and have befriended soldiers.”

    For the Taliban, creating the fake profile is easy. A quick Google image search for “pretty girl” and a few minutes signing up on Facebook and they’re in. All that has to be done is to send out a bunch of friend requests and hope at least a couple bite.

    Of course, it’s easy to see why being Facebook friends with the enemy can be dangerous. Not only does it allow access to confidential information that could jeopardize operations coming from the solider his/her self, but also private info from friends and family members of the soldiers.

    The Department of Defense report also warned about geo-tagging. Since Facebook posts (photo uploads, as well) can be tagged with a location, the chances of one soldier giving up the exact whereabouts of an entire troop is greatly increased through social media.

    “Most did not recognise that people using fake profiles, perhaps masquerading as school friends, could capture information and movements. Few consider the possibilities of data mining and how patterns of behaviour can be identified over time,” said the report.

    It’s not just Australians that are being warned about the dangers of social media use during combat. Earlier this year, the U.S. Army warned soldiers about geotagging, citing an actual example where geotagged photos led to an attack on a U.S. base in Iraq back in 2007.

    [via News.com.au]