Facebook Posts Used by Thieves to Identify Targets
Facebook Posts Used by Thieves to Identify Targets
Posted 09/10/2010 at 2:44pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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The internet at large tends to childe us all every few months about how much information people are sharing online. Sites like the now defunct Please Rob Me tried to bring the whole problem into focus by aggregating social networking posts wherein people said they were not at home. Sure, we all told ourselves this was no big deal. It's not like thieves are cruising Facebook looking for clues on when to rob you. As it turns out, at least some of them are. Police are reporting that three recently apprehended accused burglars were using Facebook to target empty homes.
The accused individuals were found to be in possession of $100,000-200,000 in stolen property. Police Capt. Ron Dickerson said in a statement, "We know for a fact that some of these players, some of these criminals, were looking on these sites and identifying their targets through these social networking sites." When you think about it, many people have hundreds of Facebook friends, many of which they know only in passing. Who's to say none of them are an unscrupulous lot?
The suspects were caught when they were seen lighting off a large quantity of fireworks stolen from one of the burgled homes. Does this incident give you pause about that you say on Facebook? Have you ever posted something you feel gave away too much information?
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Blues22475
September 13, 2010 at 6:14am
...another reason why I prefer to stay away from social networking sites such as this. Not to condemn them or anything, but they just give burglars another way to screw you over (or the world in general has another means to screw you over).
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Blaze589
September 11, 2010 at 3:52pm
Facebook should have an ad: Facebook for those who don't take life at face value.
jgrimoldy
September 10, 2010 at 4:31pm
'Don't use Facebook for several reasons. This bullshit is just one of them. Why do I need to be connected to people I knew in High Scool? The ones that were worth it, I still have relationships with.
I don't measure the value of my life on how many "friends" I have or how many folks follow my tweets.
Social networking, beyond LinkedIn, has zero value to me.
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