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Recently a friend of mine had her photo hijacked from the largest "social network" site online. The hijacker used her pic to open a fake account and began leaving nasty comments on other people's pages.
This is what she had to do just to get the webmasters to close the bogus account:
She had to take a photo of herself holding a piece of paper with her account number and correct e-mail address. This is called a "salute". If your face doesn't match the face on the fake site, it stays up forever.
Then she had to scan it, upload it to her page, and e-mail it from her account internally.
Pretty strict huh? You can probably guess the name of the site, it does have millions and millions of members.
This sort of requirement is not unheard of, but it is pretty fool proof.
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