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"SOUTH NORMANTON: Fraudsters to pay back nearly £72,000"
In England, 2012, 3 adults in their late 30's, Steven Curran, Gary Gillam and Anthony Young, were caught stealing money online and owed 72000 euros back to the people they've stolen from. In U.S. dollars, that's $92901.55. Now you might be thinking, how can a group of 3 men almost get away with $93,000? Well their plan was very precise and complex enough to earn such a profit. They began with a fake distribution firm and began to advertise vacancies. They managed to lure in 11 victims and used each of their personal information from the applications they submitted to the firm and created 19 fake identites. From there, they began to open up eBay accounts and sold stolen goods and also sold fictous items on auction websites. In total, an estimated 100 online users were tricked and fell into the trap of these 3 men, and there could be more people that might've not reported the incident. So in the end, that's how Curran, Gillam, and Young owed 72000 euros to the people they've mislead, and each were locked up for 3 and half years. This is just one of the many stories of online thieving due to false cyber identity.
In England, 2012, 3 adults in their late 30's, Steven Curran, Gary Gillam and Anthony Young, were caught stealing money online and owed 72000 euros back to the people they've stolen from. In U.S. dollars, that's $92901.55. Now you might be thinking, how can a group of 3 men almost get away with $93,000? Well their plan was very precise and complex enough to earn such a profit. They began with a fake distribution firm and began to advertise vacancies. They managed to lure in 11 victims and used each of their personal information from the applications they submitted to the firm and created 19 fake identites. From there, they began to open up eBay accounts and sold stolen goods and also sold fictous items on auction websites. In total, an estimated 100 online users were tricked and fell into the trap of these 3 men, and there could be more people that might've not reported the incident. So in the end, that's how Curran, Gillam, and Young owed 72000 euros to the people they've mislead, and each were locked up for 3 and half years. This is just one of the many stories of online thieving due to false cyber identity.
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"Scammers bedevil religious leaders with fake Facebook pages"
In one unlikely story, one scammer used the identity of the reverend who leads the largest United Methodist congregation in the U.S., Rev. Adam Hamilton, to create a Facebook account that tricked many people into donating their money to false mission projects that really went to the scammer who used the reverend's name. He even got one member of the congregation to "donate" $1,000. Of course, it didn't take lone before the scammer was figured out and later had to pay the price for his crime. The thief just adds on another example of the accessibility of thieving through false cyber identities.
In one unlikely story, one scammer used the identity of the reverend who leads the largest United Methodist congregation in the U.S., Rev. Adam Hamilton, to create a Facebook account that tricked many people into donating their money to false mission projects that really went to the scammer who used the reverend's name. He even got one member of the congregation to "donate" $1,000. Of course, it didn't take lone before the scammer was figured out and later had to pay the price for his crime. The thief just adds on another example of the accessibility of thieving through false cyber identities.
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"Rabbi Michael Broyde’s Internet identity problem"Although this example doesn't quite relate to the topic of stealing, we thought that this would show how false cyber identity can be conducted by anyone. Not just creepy old guys on the internet or hackers, but even people like Rabbi Michael Broyde. Who was thought to be "one of the most respected Orthodox rabbis in America" was later found out to really be another lying internet user that plays by the advantages of false cyber identity. After 20 years of using a fake alias by the name of "Rabbi Hershel Goldwasser", Broyde was revealed of his true identity and his high title as a respectable rabbi was tarnished. He used his fake identity on the internet to "publish scores of letters in scholarly journals and online correspondence...and gain membership for a time in the International Rabbinic Fellowship, an association of liberal Orthodox rabbis." As surprising as this sounds, this isn't the first religious leader to fake their identity on the internet to steal or gain access to certain privileges. Of course, anyone can do it, and that's the main issue: that anyone can log onto the internet as a completely different person and take whatever they please, without leaving a single trace.