Facebook hack for Dancing With The Stars contestant Emily Scott
Dancing With The Stars contestant Emily Scott’s public Facebook page was briefly hacked this evening, with offensive messages and images being posted in her name.
Scott – a glamour model and DJ – is r
aising money for The Aids Trust of Australia during Seven’s celebrity dance contest, which began earlier this month.
Previously, most of the recent updates on her page had related to the show. But the offensive messages began to appear at about 6pm, although it appears that in the last few minutes her management have regained control of the account and the messages have been taken down.
(Update: See the comment thread below. The page itself wasn’t hacked, but a fake profile, also called Emily Scott, was able to post unmoderated messages which appeared to come from the real person until Scott’s management complained to Facebook and the profile was remvoed.)
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That really doesn’t look like a hack to me. That just looks like someone using an account with the same name (which is permitted on Facebook – plenty of people have the same name, some even end up marrying each other) posting abusive messages on her wall. It doesn’t look like they lost control of the account, just that whoever looks after that Fan page wasn’t on the ball enough to moderate them away quickly.
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I did appreciate this being brought to our attention and Emily was right onto it as well. It was a fake account and I reported it. It doesn’t appear to exist now. The fan page is an official Emily Scott page and is moderated by EmilyScottHQ.com and Emily herself.
Right. Got to the bottom of this.
It’s the real fan page, but a fake Emily Scott posting the top two messages on it. So to anyone looking at an unmoderated page (anyone know whether fanpages can have pre-moderation turned on/ off?) it will look like the real deal. Then if they click on the name, they’re on the fake profile.
Slighty sneakier than most methods for fake profiles…
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
I’m curious as how this made it onto mumbrella’s radar so quickly – secret fan Tim? 😉
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