Today i found this report!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224130/Mother-Ashleigh-Hall-killed-meeting-man-Facebook-calls-ban-false-online-profiles.html

Will this be the end of fake profiles on the net?

Somehow i doubt it someone will still have to check out every new profile and makea decision as to what is fake and what isn't, so like most things a lot of genuine people's profiles will be deleted in error!

This isn't to say that i disagree with some form of action needing to be taken but what and in which way?
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This guy is liscensed to chill, and thrill, but the opportunities to thrill are rather less than anticipated!!!!

Creating free mailboxes with Hotmail, Yahoo and such is easy so it's going to be extremely hard to identify fake users. Even IP addresses can be faked if the user is insistent on making a fake profile so it's going to be very hard to identify the fakes. Even if they make them all pay sites to identify by CC details, not only will they lose customers, they will still have users with more than one credit card who can then make two or more profiles.

In reality, this is going to be extremely difficult, if not impossible to police. Just more excuses for the gov't to use so they can justify snooping on our actions maybe?

As Dale says, it'd be almost impossible to police...

And who would do it and how would it be paid for...
Oh-ho! Something is coming thru!
Well, let's think:
There's a need for it, right? To protect the public.
There's a lot of people using online networking.
There's a government in need of public approval.
And, Yes, there's a government in need of new streams of revenue.
Yep. I can see it now - the Social Network Online Tax (or SNOT, for short, cos it gets right up your nose! ), collected by the provider from the user - and then paid to the Exchequer.

Yep, ticks all the right boxes and it's logical.
It's cheap to collect!
And they don't REALLY need to do anything, cos who'd know?
Ideal! Probably be in the next budget!
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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I really can't click on the link, I have a complete and utter moral objection to the Daily Mail which prevents me from even giving thier website traffic, so I'm hoping I'm getting the complete picture from peoples replies.
I believe that something like this would be extremely hard to police, and extremely expensive, and still there will be ways around it. Proxy IPs, free e-mail addresses and even if they use a credit card check, those can be stolen, all ways around it. The only people that need to create a fake profile would go to those lengths, which means it just punishes the rest of us. And, as Handsel says, leaves room for a nice hefty tax.
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Vidi Vici Veni

I got in touch with my feminine side. She emailed me back saying if I ever contacted her again she'd call the police.

Its very sad.

But it doesn't seem top be a case of a fake profile, or have I missed something ? Just seems to be a case of two people meeting, which millions do every week.

Maybe just a case that this poor girl met the wrong person.

Maybe I'm just seeing it all wrong.