The fucking nerve of some people!!!

Well, where do I begin??? Because folks, it has certainly been a while.
A follow up to the last blog would be a good place eh? All stories have a beginning, middle and an end, and so does this one.
To cut a long one short - 'Liz' moved out.
No more worry over "Did I get all that eye-liner off?" or "Shit! Did I leave caked up make-up wipes in the bathroom?", now I can return to my mess and throw my bras where I like.... As long as it's near the wash basket... My Mrs goes fucking spare!

No, in all honesty, having another female presence in the house was nice in truth. Me good lady always had a friend, and to be honest, I kinda miss 'Liz' clattering through the front door, sighing, then unfurling the most random story you ever heard on an almost daily basis. Every story seemed to trump the last in it's complexity and ridiculousness.
She does seem to have landed on her feet though. I'm really pleased for her and I'm happy to have been a part of seeing her through her time of bullshit.

Here's to 'Liz'.

Just a heads up - The title has nothing to do with what you just read.
Apparently an aggressive attention grabbing title is what lures people in, I give you some filler first and you wade through it looking for the part that the title describes - It's a fine social custom.
When did you ever bump into someone on the street like

"Samantha!!! How are you doi..."
[Samantha interrupts]
"Someone is pretending to be me on Facebook...."

No, we don't do that, we do the whole 'Hows life? Hows the wife???' part first before dropping a bomb like that.

But that's pretty much how it is. Or, should I say was, because I/we/maybe even you got the fucker taken down.

Okay, so....
I was minding my own business, catching up with a few people on one of my CD social sites the other week, reading messages, notifications, the usual catchy-uppy stuff.
When I read a message-

"Hi Samantha ,

I hope you're well, I have just received a friends request from yourself on Facebook and I would just like to confirm that you have actually sent the request.

I have been chatting with this person for a little while and I noticed that your location was being given as London. It was only when I checked on here that i remembered that you live in ***********.

Can you confirm that you have a facebook account, if not would you like me to report it as a fraudulent account.

Claire"

Excuse me?

Here's a little snippet of info before we continue.
I am not on Facebook. At least Samantha is not on Facebook (third person is weird), my guy life, my real world life has a Facebook (herein 'FB') and that's fine, I know I'm being tracked, I know how the advertising is targeted, I know how it suggests friends, I know it's a huge invasion of my privacy. 

But as Samantha, I'm on Transtastic, TV-Chix, Crossdressers[dot]com (forums), Flickr, Pintrest, Google, Blogger... I have enough to be getting on with, without FB figuring out my IP for IRL me is the same IP as Samantha. 

I don't want 'People you may know' throwing the curve-ball of suggesting 'Samantha' as a friend to one of my IRL friends who doesn't know I AM Samantha, purely because Samantha and me IRL share an IP address.

If you're still following - Well done. I just read that back, confused myself, re-typed it and am still crossing my fingers that you understand what I'm saying.

OK.
So. I immediately go looking for it. Took a while, but I found it. Some c**t had taken my photographs from the web, edited them to claim the images as their own and set up shop on FB using Samantha's name. Impressively, the scammer had managed to accrue over 200 followers. I was shocked!
So I went down the normal channel of report it to FB as 'This person is impersonating me'.
But when FB replied, my take-down request was denied (because I requested the take down on MY own - MALE FB account.)
I replied. Grudgingly I told them I am a CD. I told them that I have all the originals to the photos that the scammer was using as well as many more besides.
I told them it was delicate matter and sent the reply...
Then nothing...
No quick reply like last time...
I started to worry.
But then a spark of genius struck me. I told Jo. A good friend of mine from New Jersey.
You don't fuck with the friends of a 6ft transsexual called Jojo who pronounces coffee as
"Cawwfee".
Jo sent a VERY threatening message to him, as well as delighting in the misfortune I had bestowed upon me.
We had a chat on skype, then I went to check - still no reply from FB.

I got onto the rest of my Trans/CD/TV social sites, posted the details of my situation and urged everyone to report the sonofabitch.
They did so in their droves. I was overwhelmed with support, for which I could not be more greatful.
Still no reply from FB.

Then, suspecting that the lying dick brain got my photos from Flickr, I decided to upload a quick n nasty photoshop image to all of my social sites (mainly Flickr) that would host images. This image infact...
 

Then I went to check again - Still no reply from FB.

I was pissed now. This meant war.
I posted on forums, went into chatrooms, pulled every string, called in every favour to request the take down, stressing that some arsehole was pretending to be me and was going to fuck my privacy over....

Then the reply came
"We have reviewed this case and have closed the account."...

---

Relief.

While a little scary, there was a tiny part of me that was a little flattered by the whole thing.
That someone went out of their way to impersonate me (or who they would like me to be by the sounds of Claire's message).

This is a lesson folks.
Involve yourself with this community. Even if it's only online, because in your time of need, if you can summon an army, your chances of winning the battle are much higher.
If I had been the reclusive, barely involved type, Claire would never have noted that the person on FB didn't 'sound' like me (Fuck knows what they were saying), Nor would I have been able to call upon so many people when I needed them.

So there's your take-away - Stay in touch.Even if you haven't dressed in months, even if you're not into it as much as me, if someone goes online with your photos, they might as well be you.


And here's a little something, just in case my 'Samantha Wannabe' is reading this.

If this was some kind of 'Told ya so' stunt because of my views on posting photos of who you are on the internet in the name of transparency and honesty, then go fuck yourself with a cactus.
You are the worst example of a person I have ever come across - theft, fraud, libel....
You are nothing.

Just remember - you may think you are a one-man-army...

"But I have dragons....."

It has become quite apparent that I can call upon my friends, my army of equals when my world is threatened.

Word to the wise...
Wouldn't try it twice if I were you.


And there we have it folks.
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I'm off to enjoy a night dressed nice n pretty, see you all soon

Samantha -x-