FRAUD ALERT!!!

Where in the world did POSERS and IMPOSTORS come from? What is on their minds whenever they try to fool other people? What do they feel whenever they pretend to be someone else?

On April 12 at around 12 pm, I received a message from a guy named Iccyg Gabriel on Facebook asking if I know him.

I checked his profile and accidentally saw a familiar picture on his friends list. Her name is Misty Nicole. I viewed her profile and saw MY PICTURES. I was stunned. But I started to freak out when I saw on the info section that she's engaged to that Iccyg Gabriel. OMG! What the?! Is she a twin sister of mine? When was the time that I had a fiance´ named Iccyg?

This guy added me a long time ago and I ignored him. Friend requests from male strangers are not welcome on my page. Really... I ended up accepting his friend request. Not to befriend him but to confront him about this stuff. I posted on his wall, but he didn't respond immediately.

I scrutinized every info I could get. I've read their wall-to-wall posts, even their jejemon sweet messages to each other. One message that caught my attention says "Mhie, sana magkita na tayo. gusto na kitang makasama". So they haven't met each other yet. Well, how could they? If the girl was hiding behind my own pictures.

I notified my FB friends about this and pleaded to help me report the fake account. Luckily, a lot of them helped me. Some of them ranted at him. My big sister messaged this guy and came up with an opinion that Misty and Iccyg were the same person. And I didn't agree!

My profile and albums were set to private. Only friends could see these. Iccyg never became my friend on FB, not until I saw the conflict. Iccyg would never get any of my photos and upload into the Misty account. Thus, the culprit must be one of my friends. Misty Nicole is a big time JEJEMON. She typed words weirdly.

She actually copied a status that I've published before. Here it is:

My sister continued arguing with Iccyg. According to him, since friendster days Misty Nicole has been fooling this guy. He fell in love with her and even asked for a cellphone load from him. What the hell! A gold-digger! I dunno the reason why he didn't notice the hoax promptly.

Doubt slapped his face after 3 YEARS. That pushed him to surf my name, Annizah Camid, through google. He added that he remembered the very first name given by Misty Nicole which was my real name. After browsing, he saw links to my twitter, multiply, friendster, and facebook pages. He must be really bothered because he created personal accounts on those sites and sent me notes. All notes were the same, asking if I know him.

After hours of debate and worries, my big sister's friends who work as technicians in STC helped us and confirmed who the real culprit was. And she's SHEILA DE PAZ!

SHEILA was my online buddy. Her mom is even my big sister's wedding godmother. I've never met her personally but because of her little sister who's a former schoolmate of mine, she was able to know me. She added me, introduced herself, and had some chitchats online. Kindness in her could be felt, that's why it never crossed my mind that she could be the impostor. On one hand, Iccyg shared that SHEILA was introduced as Misty Nicole's cousin.

Now, everything is clear. We know the delinquent, the victims, and the modus operandi. I don't know what is Sheila's purpose in doing that. I haven't talked to her yet and I don't know if I should be mad at her or talk to her sedately or what. All I feel is hatred toward her! Her action cannot consider as a major offense but she can be sent into the prison, especially it includes money (cellphone load). She has damaged my reputation and put me in danger. What if Iccyg and I cross path and might hug me without knowing why?

So for all of us, beware of this kind of routine as it can happen to everyone. And to all fraud, stop being selfish and fooling other people. In fact, you're deluding yourself. Surely, you don't want the consequences of your action, do you?

I also would like to thank those people who have concern about what happened and helped me. Thank you so much! =)