— Colors and Spices

I say beware in posting personal profiles on the net. As much as I want to fully express myself in my social networking sites, I’m also worrying with the threat that could happen to anyone. Identity Theft? Whatever you call. Its just that last year(haha last month-December), I discovered that someone created a new fake friendster account. Worse is that it got my profile(schools,hobbies,who i a want to meet, etc). The profile I had before switching to what i have now on my fs. Worst! It had my pictures.

Good thing Lique(katukayo,friend,kuyapat’s hs classmate) informed me so. She PMd me. She asked if I had two fs accounts. I said i only had one. She replied that there’s this account with my name, pictures, profile etc who added her and frequently visits her site. I was so freaked out. I was afraid. Of all people. I was considering it’s just a friendster error just like the very recent one — deleting everyone’s friendslist. But i noticed that in the who i want to meet section, it was so obvious that it was copy pasted. The original ones had links. The fake one didnt have. Also with the school, there are some discrepancies with the way of typing etc. I might consider uploading the comparisons when i got time.

I just messaged everybody in my friends list. I Also messaged the 16 people in this fake account friends list to delete this acoount in their list. Unfortunately, they are not responding. Well, most of them I dont know and i understand how hard it is to manually search your friends list esp if its 500+.

I emailed friednster and here’s the reply.

Hello Angelique,

Thank you for contacting Friendster Customer Support.

In order to research these cases, we need as much information as possible. Please provide us with:

Account First name:
Account Last name:
Account Email address:

**Account ID# / Profile URL** (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND WE MUST HAVE THIS)

**To get an account ID Number: once you locate the profile, put your cursor over the photo, or frame where the main image should be>look at the URL in the status bar on the bottom left side of your browser window and note the numbers at the end of URL after the slash “/” OR bring up that profile page and copy and paste the URL from your browser address bar and give it to us.

In addition, we need you (the person being impersonated) to provide us with the below requested information to prove and validate your identity. Please be aware we will investigate all claims regarding this account and this process may take at least 4 weeks.

Also, please provide us with:

1. Valid Photo ID (driver’s license, passport, Postal ID)

When you have this information ready, you may send it to us by:

1. EMAIL: Scan, save jpeg attachment and attach to this case. Email custservice@friendster.com
2. MAIL to: 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 150, Mountain View, CA 94040
3. Fax to: (650) 964-4966 Attention: Customer Service

Please also include your reference # on your fax.

Note: this process may take up to 4 weeks to complete

Eh yung mga kapanahunanag iyon ay gumagawa kame ng inforem. Hindi ko na nareplyan.

Sana lang. sana lang.. haay. Ano kaya un, baket merong ganong pangyayare.