WHO@ Newsletter - March 1, 2010
I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Stupid criminals
Cops: Fla. thieves overheard after misdialing 911
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100224/ap_
Police say two Florida teenagers are facing charges after 911 dispatchers heard them talking about breaking into cars when one teen's cell phone accidentally called 911 during a heist. Daytona Beach police say 19-year-old Stefanie Vargas and a 13-year-old boy are charged with burglary to a conveyance.
Police spokesman Jimmie Flynt says dispatchers listened as the pair discussed what was worth taking while rummaging though a vehicle parked near a Daytona Beach nightclub early Sunday.
Officers went to the area and spotted the boy inside a vehicle. A police report says the pair tried to flee in a sport utility vehicle driven by Vargas. The report says both admitted to the robbery.
It's unclear how the number got dialed.
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(DISCLAIMER: The following news items were found on the web and were not written or endorsed by WHO@; they are for informational purposes only)
Missing Leicester student appeal is removed from internet - 03/01/10
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/n
A web page being used to help find a missing student has been taken down after insensitive comments were posted on it. Nearly 9,000 people had joined a Facebook group spreading the word about the disappearance of 24-year-old Phil Dillon.
Fraud gang stole dead child's ID - 03/01/10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wale
The mother of a child whose ID was used in a multiple fraud 16 years after he died has spoken of her shock and anger. John Dempsey Hamilton's birth certificate was one of 44 obtained online and used to apply for driving licences with which to open bank accounts and defraud over £20,000.
Criminals use technology to track victims - 02/28/10
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20100
Instead of lurking in bushes or hiding in the shadows outside of homes, stalkers have gone high-tech, using cell phones, computers and the Internet to hunt and track their victims.
Facial recognition brings online stalking to the real world - 02/28/10
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/facia
What if you could point your cellphone's camera at someone's face, and then know that person's name, schedule, profile, and latest tweets? That's the promise of Recognizr, an Android app prototype using a 3D model to recognize facial features, find a match on its server, and then superimpose that person's social networking preferences around his or her face.
Cyber spoofs launch digital election war - 02/28/10
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/p
IT’S a parallel world where David Cameron smacks his daughter, civil servants emerge from No 10 with black eyes and Tony Blair votes for the Tories because he thinks they are on the side of multi-millionaires like him.
Janitor allegedly stalked students - 02/28/10
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/02/2
A local school janitor faces felony charges after police said he solicited naked images of a student over the Internet, then repeatedly stalked the student and his girlfriend. Walter Edward "Wally" Lucas, 40, of Traverse City, is charged with a single count of using computers to commit a crime, five counts of child sexually abusive activity and one count of stalking a minor.
State considers new laws to deal with teen sexting separately from pornography - 02/27/10
http://www.herald-review.com/news/l
Even for state lawmakers who have gotten used to confronting strange new societal issues spawned by technology, including cyberstalking, Internet gambling and texting while driving, this one is daunting.
Strange twist: Exonerated man still in jail while accused free on bail in trooper cyberstalking case - 02/27/10
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/gasto
Gaston County’s district attorney dropped a cyberstalking charge against a Belmont man after his neighbor allegedly confessed to borrowing his cell phone and sending harassing text messages to a state trooper.
Klahowya student arrested for posting threatening rap to MySpace - 02/26/10
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/c
A 14-year-old Klahowya Secondary School student's future as a gangsta rapper may be put on hold after he was arrested for posting a song to his myspace.com account, complete with threats to students and school staff.
Students bully teacher on Facebook - 02/26/10
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/austr
Twenty students from a Brisbane high school have been suspended for bullying a staff member on Facebook. Education Queensland said it doesn't tolerate bullying, harassment and threatening behaviour and the students, from Springwood State High School, have been disciplined.
Craigslist prank leads to legal trouble - 02/26/10
http://www.thereporteronline.com/articl
A Craigslist prank that targeted a Berks woman ended with legal troubles for a Bucks County man. Kenneth Ryan Silcox, 36, of Hilltop Road, Warminster, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to a summary harassment charge in connection with an October 2008 incident during which he allegedly created a fake Craigslist personal ad in the name of a Kutztown woman, who then received unwanted calls from strange men.
Ed Miliband latest victim of Twitter scam as sex message and viagra link sent to 7,000 followers - 02/26/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
Cabinet minister Ed Miliband was left embarrassed after apparently sending saucy messages to thousands of people on social networking site Twitter.
Man Charged with Cyberstalking High School Student - 02/26/10
http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-ashebor
A Randolph County man was arrested for allegedly cyberstalking and extorting a high school student for nude photographs, according to the Randolph County Sheriff's Office.
School shows off its laptop surveillance tactics - 02/26/10
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10460
"This kid looks like they're editing their MySpace page." So declares an assistant principal at Intermediate School 339 in the Bronx borough of New York, a "former technology coach" (PDF) named Dan Ackerman (but not to be confused with CNET's Dan Ackerman). You might imagine that he's wandering around a classroom looking over kids' shoulders as they fiddle about on their laptops. You might imagine, then, that storks deliver milk as well as babies.
Beauty's Facebook hijack ordeal - 02/26/10
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/quee
A Queens man took his girlfriend's Facebook account hostage, changed her sexual preference to gay, and demanded cash for her profile's safe return, authorities said yesterday.
'I will slash your face': Britain's most obsessive stalker jailed for terrorising student on Facebook - 02/25/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A loner dubbed Britain's most obsessive cyber stalker was behind bars last night after ignoring a lifetime restraining order to continue terrorising a university student.
Gossip Gone Viral! - 02/24/10
http://www.thepacifican.com/new/index.p
Recent studies have indicated that Internet users with female screen names receive 25 times more malicious feedback and negative comments than those with male names. This statistic further applies to chat rooms, message boards, and networking sites, making it apparent that the Internet is becoming a free-for-all where people can make vicious, unwarranted falsities about their peers.
Her Facebook status changed to "single?" Ur dumped - 02/23/10
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100223/od_
Digital dumping is on the rise, according to a survey, with growing numbers of people preferring to use email and social networking Web sites to break up with their partners. Over one third of 2,000 people polled (34 percent) said they had ended a relationship by email, 13 percent had changed their status on Facebook without telling their partners and six percent had released the news unilaterally on Twitter.
It's a Crime: The law on harassment - 02/23/10
http://www.chestertontribune.com/Police
Here’s how a Chesterton Police officer spent part of her shifts last week. At 9:36 a.m. on Monday, according to the officer’s initial report, a woman filed a complaint against her ex-boyfriendwith whom she’d broken up on Saturdayafter he “harassed her extensively via telephone over the past 24 hours” and sent her as well a total of 46 texts.
Cyber-Harassment of Children on the Rise - 02/23/10
http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/0
A new study has found that around 10 percent of all adolescents in grades 7-9 are victims of Internet bullying. The online stalking is pervasive and stressful.
Cops: Fla. thieves overheard after misdialing 911
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100224/ap_
Police say two Florida teenagers are facing charges after 911 dispatchers heard them talking about breaking into cars when one teen's cell phone accidentally called 911 during a heist. Daytona Beach police say 19-year-old Stefanie Vargas and a 13-year-old boy are charged with burglary to a conveyance.
Police spokesman Jimmie Flynt says dispatchers listened as the pair discussed what was worth taking while rummaging though a vehicle parked near a Daytona Beach nightclub early Sunday.
Officers went to the area and spotted the boy inside a vehicle. A police report says the pair tried to flee in a sport utility vehicle driven by Vargas. The report says both admitted to the robbery.
It's unclear how the number got dialed.
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Visit WHOA on the web at http://www.haltabuse.org
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NEWS TO USE AND PASS ALONG!
(DISCLAIMER: The following news items were found on the web and were not written or endorsed by WHO@; they are for informational purposes only)
Missing Leicester student appeal is removed from internet - 03/01/10
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/n
A web page being used to help find a missing student has been taken down after insensitive comments were posted on it. Nearly 9,000 people had joined a Facebook group spreading the word about the disappearance of 24-year-old Phil Dillon.
Fraud gang stole dead child's ID - 03/01/10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wale
The mother of a child whose ID was used in a multiple fraud 16 years after he died has spoken of her shock and anger. John Dempsey Hamilton's birth certificate was one of 44 obtained online and used to apply for driving licences with which to open bank accounts and defraud over £20,000.
Criminals use technology to track victims - 02/28/10
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20100
Instead of lurking in bushes or hiding in the shadows outside of homes, stalkers have gone high-tech, using cell phones, computers and the Internet to hunt and track their victims.
Facial recognition brings online stalking to the real world - 02/28/10
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/facia
What if you could point your cellphone's camera at someone's face, and then know that person's name, schedule, profile, and latest tweets? That's the promise of Recognizr, an Android app prototype using a 3D model to recognize facial features, find a match on its server, and then superimpose that person's social networking preferences around his or her face.
Cyber spoofs launch digital election war - 02/28/10
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/p
IT’S a parallel world where David Cameron smacks his daughter, civil servants emerge from No 10 with black eyes and Tony Blair votes for the Tories because he thinks they are on the side of multi-millionaires like him.
Janitor allegedly stalked students - 02/28/10
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/02/2
A local school janitor faces felony charges after police said he solicited naked images of a student over the Internet, then repeatedly stalked the student and his girlfriend. Walter Edward "Wally" Lucas, 40, of Traverse City, is charged with a single count of using computers to commit a crime, five counts of child sexually abusive activity and one count of stalking a minor.
State considers new laws to deal with teen sexting separately from pornography - 02/27/10
http://www.herald-review.com/news/l
Even for state lawmakers who have gotten used to confronting strange new societal issues spawned by technology, including cyberstalking, Internet gambling and texting while driving, this one is daunting.
Strange twist: Exonerated man still in jail while accused free on bail in trooper cyberstalking case - 02/27/10
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/gasto
Gaston County’s district attorney dropped a cyberstalking charge against a Belmont man after his neighbor allegedly confessed to borrowing his cell phone and sending harassing text messages to a state trooper.
Klahowya student arrested for posting threatening rap to MySpace - 02/26/10
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/c
A 14-year-old Klahowya Secondary School student's future as a gangsta rapper may be put on hold after he was arrested for posting a song to his myspace.com account, complete with threats to students and school staff.
Students bully teacher on Facebook - 02/26/10
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/austr
Twenty students from a Brisbane high school have been suspended for bullying a staff member on Facebook. Education Queensland said it doesn't tolerate bullying, harassment and threatening behaviour and the students, from Springwood State High School, have been disciplined.
Craigslist prank leads to legal trouble - 02/26/10
http://www.thereporteronline.com/articl
A Craigslist prank that targeted a Berks woman ended with legal troubles for a Bucks County man. Kenneth Ryan Silcox, 36, of Hilltop Road, Warminster, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to a summary harassment charge in connection with an October 2008 incident during which he allegedly created a fake Craigslist personal ad in the name of a Kutztown woman, who then received unwanted calls from strange men.
Ed Miliband latest victim of Twitter scam as sex message and viagra link sent to 7,000 followers - 02/26/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
Cabinet minister Ed Miliband was left embarrassed after apparently sending saucy messages to thousands of people on social networking site Twitter.
Man Charged with Cyberstalking High School Student - 02/26/10
http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-ashebor
A Randolph County man was arrested for allegedly cyberstalking and extorting a high school student for nude photographs, according to the Randolph County Sheriff's Office.
School shows off its laptop surveillance tactics - 02/26/10
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10460
"This kid looks like they're editing their MySpace page." So declares an assistant principal at Intermediate School 339 in the Bronx borough of New York, a "former technology coach" (PDF) named Dan Ackerman (but not to be confused with CNET's Dan Ackerman). You might imagine that he's wandering around a classroom looking over kids' shoulders as they fiddle about on their laptops. You might imagine, then, that storks deliver milk as well as babies.
Beauty's Facebook hijack ordeal - 02/26/10
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/quee
A Queens man took his girlfriend's Facebook account hostage, changed her sexual preference to gay, and demanded cash for her profile's safe return, authorities said yesterday.
'I will slash your face': Britain's most obsessive stalker jailed for terrorising student on Facebook - 02/25/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A loner dubbed Britain's most obsessive cyber stalker was behind bars last night after ignoring a lifetime restraining order to continue terrorising a university student.
Gossip Gone Viral! - 02/24/10
http://www.thepacifican.com/new/index.p
Recent studies have indicated that Internet users with female screen names receive 25 times more malicious feedback and negative comments than those with male names. This statistic further applies to chat rooms, message boards, and networking sites, making it apparent that the Internet is becoming a free-for-all where people can make vicious, unwarranted falsities about their peers.
Her Facebook status changed to "single?" Ur dumped - 02/23/10
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100223/od_
Digital dumping is on the rise, according to a survey, with growing numbers of people preferring to use email and social networking Web sites to break up with their partners. Over one third of 2,000 people polled (34 percent) said they had ended a relationship by email, 13 percent had changed their status on Facebook without telling their partners and six percent had released the news unilaterally on Twitter.
It's a Crime: The law on harassment - 02/23/10
http://www.chestertontribune.com/Police
Here’s how a Chesterton Police officer spent part of her shifts last week. At 9:36 a.m. on Monday, according to the officer’s initial report, a woman filed a complaint against her ex-boyfriendwith whom she’d broken up on Saturdayafter he “harassed her extensively via telephone over the past 24 hours” and sent her as well a total of 46 texts.
Cyber-Harassment of Children on the Rise - 02/23/10
http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/0
A new study has found that around 10 percent of all adolescents in grades 7-9 are victims of Internet bullying. The online stalking is pervasive and stressful.
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