Facebook fake used dead war hero's photos to flirt

[XemaSab]

An "Internet Lothario" purloined pictures from the memorial site for a handsome U.S. Army Ranger to chat up women on a fake Facebook profile, leading them on and then blowing them off.

Fictional New Yorker "Dylan Sorvino" pretended to be a former law student stationed in Iraq, the New York Post reports. To support the masquerade, he posted as his profile picture photos of Sgt. Roberto Sanchez, a 24-year- old Florida native and U.S. Army Ranger killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2009 after five tours of duty. A woman familiar with the "Dylan Sorvino" profile alerted Sanchez's family after she saw the same photos on a military website.

Sanchez's fellow Rangers and friends confronted "Sorvino" on his fake profile, and it quickly disappeared.

Women, it seems, were the target audience for this fake Facebook profile, via which "Sorvino" would flirt, play poker, and set up dates for his "return to the states," and then never show up.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/10/5805335-facebook-fake-used-dead-war-heros-photos-to-flirt


Sounds like someone who used to hang out here... :P

[Kaleva]

1. I posed as a lesbian in a Yahoo chat room once years ago.

Only to find out that all the other "lesbians" there were also men. Damn sick bastards!

[Wetzelbill]

2. Locking

Wait I have no power to do that.

[Ten Bears]

3. This could be more common than you know...

... My ex is engaged to a fake marine she met on facebook. He used the "marlboro marine" photo and claimed it was him from his time in Beirut.

[XemaSab]

4. Why is she still engaged to him?

:shrug:

[Ten Bears]

6. She believes everything he tells her.

Strange, because she is highly intelligent and his lies are not complex. She is going to be his fifth wife, you'd think that would be enough for her to think twice, but no. I told her what I knew about him early on but she made it clear what her intentions were and she had no interest in what I had to say. I found this particular one out later, along with many other things, and have decided to just keep my mouth shut about it. Besides, any thoughts of revenge upon an ex I may have will be completely satiated by her marrying him.

[SOteric]

5. I guess I don't really understand what the end gain is..

What's in it for someone romancing when there's no eventual conquest, no fruition?