Re: Fraudulent Facebook Profile

["Maloney, Michael" <mmaloney () MIDDLESEXCC EDU>]

Another avenue is Facebook's PR people.   Ask your PR department to contact their PR department and explain the 
situation to them.  Nothing can put a screeching halt to something faster than the PR folks saying "This will not bode 
well for us in the public eye".
 
We got Google hacked awhile back.  Going thru the normal channels had no effect.   One phone call from our PR guy to 
their PR dept and the information was off of Google before we knew it.
 
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From: Tracy Mitrano [mailto:tbm3 () CORNELL EDU]
Sent: Mon 1/14/2008 3:13 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Fraudulent Facebook Profile


Folks might want to get in touch with Chris Kelly the Privacy Officer at:  ckelly () facebook com 


On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Renaud, Robert wrote:


        Kees:

        We had a similar situation last year when a YouTube video portrayed
        Dickinson College in an embarrassing light.  Our in-house attorney wrote
        them a cordial email and it was withdrawn shortly thereafter.

        Regards, 

        Robert E. Renaud
        Vice President and CIO
        Library and Information Services
        Dickinson College
        P.O. Box 1773
        Carlisle, PA 17013
        717.245.1072 (Voice)
        717-254-8142 (Fax)
        renaudr () dickinson edu  


        -----Original Message-----
        From: Kees Leune [mailto:LEUNE () ADELPHI EDU] 
        Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 2:40 PM
        To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
        Subject: [SECURITY] Fraudulent Facebook Profile

        Hello Everyone,


        It was brought to my attention today that (presumably) one or more of
        our students created a fake Facebook profile of one of our Faculty
        members. The page contains elements copied from the University's Faculty
        Profiles (which are only available via our Intranet), and advertises the
        individual in such a way that it could damage that person's individual
        integrity, as well as the University's good name. 

        Unfortunately, reaching out to Facebook via their abuse@ email address
        did not solicit any reaction yet, and given the general buzz I do not
        expect to hear much back from that route either. Has anyone on this list
        ever handled a situation like this before? If so, how did you handle it?


        Any suggestions would be more than appreciated!

        Thank you,

        kees




Tracy Mitrano
Director of IT Policy
110F East Hill Office Bldg
Ithaca NY 14853
(607)254-3584