"What I should do, he advised, is set up a specific site and get the Bosker impostor to click on the link. Once he or she has accessed this (trap) page, I'd have his or her IP address and could pinpoint his or her geographic location, and perhaps trace the IP address back to a jealous ex, hometown friend or anonymous stalker."

I'm behind 19 proxies and a fort made out of seat cushions!

You'll never find me bwahaha!

Whats up with that URL when I hover over it?

"Beside to freak you out, which is a legitimate possibility, I can't imagine any other motivation [for this]," said Horan.

Yup. She's being trolled hard. Welcome to the internet!

PreMortem: I'm behind 19 proxies and a fort made out of seat cushions!
 
That depends on the type of fabric in the seat cushions. Leather is very reflective, but certain types of older upholstery leave gaping proxy holes.
 
/ the more you know

Even more disturbing was the fact that "Bianca Bosker's" most recent status update was word-for-word, period-for-period, my most recent status update.

My Glob! The prankster can copy and paste! We're doomed!

I felt like I'd received a prank phone call from someone who knew where I was, what I was wearing, and the last thing I'd said out loud. I realized I was being watched.

The hell you say?! You put your life on public display and now someone is "watching" you?! THE PROFILE IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!

Seriously, how farking retarded is this woman? You're being trolled. It's probably someone you know since literally no one else in the world knows who you are or cares. If you don't want them ripping off your info to troll you, make your profile private.

AW gets trolled, Film at 11ty.

HotIgneous Intruder: She mentions that she has 221,000 people who subscribe to her [attention whoring vaginal quiverings] updates, en passant, blithely, as though it were nothing and could not be the root of her, erm, troubles.

I believe that's what's known as a "humblebrag".

That's OK... I have a hotmail e-mail that idiots use ALL THE TIME as a "Fake e-mail" when registering at sites. When I get notices, I imediately log in andchange the password and take over the site.

Today, the idiot that used my e-mail to register a facebook account has been trying to get their password reset. I hopped on the page and updated the picture:



I made a comment on that facebook page that I hated it when idiots use my e-mail and "it made me want to smoke crack" - maybe the person will get a clue.



I did something similar with some wench that registered at "SugarDaddy.com" - I turned her into an obvious crackwhore. More disturbing, is all the sugar daddies that want to hook up with her. WTF is wrong with people?

/Obligatory

My FB comedy:

I lost interest in FB and didn't log in for months. One day, I get a "suspicious activity, your account has been locked" email. Click here to verify your ID and get back in.

I check the URL and it's legit, so I click. FB says it's sending a SMS to my mobile number with a PIN I will need to enter online. I recognize the number, but I don't recall putting it on FB. Better yet, I haven't owned that phone number in years so I can't get the PIN.

There is no way to report this problem. No alternative ID verification method. I say fark it and go back to life. There's nothing on FB that I need.

Weeks later, I get email saying, "Sorry you're having trouble logging in to FB. Click here for help." Again, I verify it's legit and then click.

I'm offered password reset. I reset password and get confirmation email.

I log in with new password and there's the phone PIN thing again. FB just let me reset my account's password even though FB doesn't believe I am me.

Still no way to report a problem. So I say fark it again.

Still getting monthly "Sorry you're having trouble logging in...." emails. If it's a phisher, I guess he's having trouble too and wants my help. If it's really FB, fark it.

Bizarre.

LesserEvil: That's OK... I have a hotmail e-mail that idiots use ALL THE TIME as a "Fake e-mail" when registering at sites. When I get notices, I imediately log in andchange the password and take over the site.

Today, the idiot that used my e-mail to register a facebook account has been trying to get their password reset. I hopped on the page and updated the picture:

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I made a comment on that facebook page that I hated it when idiots use my e-mail and "it made me want to smoke crack" - maybe the person will get a clue.



I did something similar with some wench that registered at "SugarDaddy.com" - I turned her into an obvious crackwhore. More disturbing, is all the sugar daddies that want to hook up with her. WTF is wrong with people?

See, I have the opposite problem. Virginia Tech allows you to set up multiple aliases for your email address; they're all linked, check one and it checks them all, etc. Can delete them at any time so if I have concerns about spam I use one of the alias emails so I can always delete it if I wanted to. So I set up fa­ke_e­m­a­il_a­ddre­s­stvedu 15ish years ago.

I keep running into sites where it auto rejects that email, thinking it's a fake email address.

When I'm actually entering a fake email address, I usually use farkuoyco­m.

I have no pity for people whom put themselves out on social media and then complain when that freely available public access turns around and bites them in the ass.

You make stupid decisions, you deserve the consequences of those decisions.

ShonenBat: "When I finally scoped out this new Bosker at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, I found myself staring back at me."

Back to reddit. Go. Now.

StoPPeRmobile: FTA, "Facebook, by its own admission, has around 83 million fake accounts, many set up by scammers looking to make a buck."

I read the article. Why do you think those scammers are there in the first place, Sparky?

Easy pickings.

Old Man Winter: I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE TO SHOOT!

Shoot the cat to scare it and see which girl it jumps toward.

/Hopefully not obscure.

Arkanaut: Mayhem_2006: Based upon the URL, I think the finger of blame can be firmly pointed to somebody working on the tech side at Huffpo...

I think you can just submit any link with a question mark followed by any string, and it'll just link to the URL before the question mark. It's usually used to submit some kind of code (PHP I think?) to the site's web server but if it's not legitimate code then it just does nothing.

Example: www.fark.com?lulz

The query string can be read by several programming languages. It's kind of like pressing F10 in a program that doesn't support it - nothing happens, so you can press to your heart's delight.

Whoever did this sounds like they'd be hanging out with a cousin's ex fiance, the one who wanted to create a device to drive around neighborhoods and wirelessly spam people.