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Re:The fake Facebook profile industry by djsumdog on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:33AM (#15696504)
The OP probably didn't think about it, but that's really a great idea/strategy. I bet the poster was just so rattled by it he didn't think about just denying it.

I can see why the police/fbi can't really do anything. It doesn't seem like there was anything criminal technically. They might be able to go after the person with a civil suit for slander? I don't know though, not a lawyer.

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Re:The fake Facebook profile industry by srtjstjsj on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:50AM (#15696682)
Blackmail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail is a crime
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Re:The fake Facebook profile industry by buckminster on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:10PM (#15697559)
It would only be blackmail if she had made a threat first, but she seems to have acted out of spite. It would be a crime in the UK however; it's a malicious communication.
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