Tuesday, March 07, 2006

MySpace Prank Results in Sex Crime Arrest

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

A group of boys who posed as a 15-year-old girl for an Internet prank ended up helping police arrest a 48-year-old man who tried to meet the fictitious teenager for sex, authorities said.

The five boys had created a fake profile of a girl on MySpace.com — a social networking Web site — to cheer up a friend who had recently broken up with his girlfriend.

But soon, a man began sending messages to the “girl” and their conversations began to have sexual overtones, said Fontana [California] police Sgt. William Megenney.

More here.

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