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Morocco jails Facebook faker

Prince impersonator gets three years A Moroccan IT engineer has been jailed for three years for setting up a fake Facebook profile impersonating a member of the country's royal family.… ...full story at the register (uk)

from the register (uk) on Mon, Feb 25 2008

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