INTERPOL's Chief Identity faked on facebook

So here we are posting our little hearts pout on Facebook. Then comes this surprising story:

If you're going to be an identity thief, think big. Like stealing the identity of the head of one of the world's best-known law enforcement agencies.

That's what happened not once, but twice, to Ronald Noble, secretary general of Interpol, who revealed the attacks in a speech at the First Interpol Information Security Conference last week in Hong Kong.

"Just recently INTERPOL’s Information Security Incident Response Team discovered two Facebook profiles attempting to assume my identity as INTERPOL’s Secretary General," Noble said.

We have warned y'all about the Internet and now even the world's police chief is being spoofed by malicious people.

Why would they want to do this?

"One of the impersonators was using this profile to obtain information on fugitives targeted during our recent Operation Infra Red," Noble said. "This Operation was bringing investigators from 29 member countries at the Interpol General Secretariat to exchange information on international fugitives and lead to more than 130 arrests in 32 countries"

So if YOU use Facebook for work or to share information with your "friends" make sure there is nothing you don't want bad guys to lay their hands on because they will.

Moroccan Held for Alleged Royal ID Theft

Just in case you missed it, I wanted to share this small article with you . Next time someone try's to tell you that identity theft will not happen to them, explain to them it can happen to ANYONE anywhere. Here is a case that the thief used Facebook to commit the crime, something I have been warning of for years.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities arrested a man Wednesday for allegedly stealing the identity of King Mohammed VI's younger brother on the social networking Web site Facebook, the country's official news agency said.
Fouad Mourtada, 26, was detained in Casablanca over "villainous practices" linked to the alleged theft of Prince Moulay Rachid's identity, the MAP agency reported, citing unidentified police officials.
The report did not elaborate, but said members of the royal family have no Web sites or blogs, and that the only official way to obtain information about them was through the MAP agency.
Facebook, one of the world's most popular online hangouts, claims more than 61 million active users.