Facebook Identity Theft Reporting is Broken

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I witnessed the following over the weekend. A friend was warned by her contacts that an account using her full name and picture was sending contact requests to a number of people in her network, with a focus on her colleagues. She works in the social sector, in youth welfare, and is therefore always very careful to lock down what little she shares. She doesn’t use her full name on her profile, but instead first name + middle name (real ones). She doesn’t want either kids she work with to be able to dig up personal information on her, nor does she want parents who may be disgruntled to be able to target her through Facebook or through her friends.