{"id":1924,"date":"2014-10-21T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2014-10-21T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T21:32:25","slug":"catfished-by-the-feds-dea-uses-unknowing-womans-id-on-facebook-to-nap-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/catfished-by-the-feds-dea-uses-unknowing-womans-id-on-facebook-to-nap-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Catfished by the Feds? DEA Uses Unknowing Woman’s ID on Facebook to Nap Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it no longer identity theft when law enforcement does it?<\/h3>\n

OK, on one level, this is kinda clever, and analogous to those scams where cops send out invites to a special event to lure in crooks. Usually, it’s under the guise of having won free tickets, or a relative croaked and left a boodle of money in an inheritance – you can see an example in the intro scene in the movie “Sea of Love.” <\/p>\n

But in this case, a woman who was a minor player in a drug ring got busted and let off with probation. But an enterprising DEA agent took her provocative photos<\/a> and used them to set up a Facebook page to lure in other crooks.<\/p>\n

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This apparently attracted h@rnsw@gglers<\/a> on the web to chat her up, after which they got busted. Facebook has complained, and the case is now under review because Arquiette is suing the Feds. <\/a><\/p>\n

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There is a long tradition of deceptive practices by police that are legal, they noted. For example, officers assume a false identity to go undercover. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s different here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, is that the agent assumed the identity of a real person without her explicit consent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, her boyfriend was using her apartment to store and dilute cocaine. He pled guilty and got 16 years<\/a>. So he was a legitimate bad guy. But there are still some troubling issues here; is this really all that different from pretending to be a crook to gain the confidence of other crooks – see: Donnie Brasco? Or any number of cops over the years, showing up to a drug deal and pretending to be the guy that they just hooked up, all to catch other crooks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it no longer identity theft when law enforcement does it? OK, on one level, this is kinda clever, and analogous to those scams where cops send out invites to a special event to lure in crooks. Usually, it’s under the guise of having won free tickets, or a relative croaked and left a boodle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-migration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}