So, I need the communities help...

[SinnamonFairbanks]

I have found out through a friend of mine that someone has assumed my identity online. Well, they are using my work photo's and not really using my work name. My friend, who made me aware of this gave me a few details that makes me believe that it is someone I know. He will not send me the emails (I think he might be embarrassed about what he wrote), but instead he sent me a screenshot of the first email that person claiming to be me sent.
I confronted the person that I believe is behind it and he denies it completely. He even has an allibi, but everything points to him. This guy who I think put the ad up claims to have sent the false ad an email and got a response. He showed me a screenshot and it says that the person from the ad is running a scam. It's all very convenient and it wouldn't be hard for him to use another email account that he has to send emails back and forth. What kind of scammer flat out says he's running a scam?

My friend who alerted me to the ad said that originally it sounded like he was talking to a woman, but then it became obvious that the person he was talking to was a man. Also the location that they claim to be from is a small town where I suspect the person who put the ads up is from. I would like to see with my own eyes what is going on. So I turn to you guys and ask if you could contact this ad and find out what is going on. I strongly believe that it is someone I know, but if it isn't I feel really terrible for ruining a good friendship. I would also like to see what he is saying as he is assuming my identity online and I am very concerned about this. I'm pretty confident I know who it is, but this person is going to great lengths to deny everything.

http://peterborough.craigslist.ca/cas/4693978112.html

Thanks everyone.

 

[DB123]

I sent an email. And I quote:
"Hi,

What is going on?"
(your wish is my command, Ms. Fairbanks)

Still waiting for a response...

 

[IM469]

... someone has assumed my identity ....

I hope it's not wide spread. This is the exact line I was going to use if my S.O. finds my namewhere it shouldn't be.

 

[Scarey]

I'm such a cynic after all my years here.My first thought was this was a way to get free advertising.It's not.I apolojize.....

 

[**Sophie**]

I would probably send a message to the administration of wherever the identity theft is being committed, then next step, police.

 

[SinnamonFairbanks]

He sent my friend a photo after he responded to the ad. He was pretending to be me.

I ended up getting a confession out of the guy after my friend finally forwarded the emails. I finally got enough information to know for sure that it was him. There were too many coincidence for me to even think that it might be someone else. It was very obviously him and he did admit to it after lying about it for 2 days. We are no longer friends.

Thanks for your help for those of you that did end up sending a message. I did try to send an email myself and I made a fake email address and pulled a photo off of the internet to use as a profile pic but I'm a dummy and I didn't sign out of my work email. I set up the account and I thought I was automatically signed into the new account. I sent the email and the email shows the sender being "Sinnamon Fairbanks" with my email attached. I figured he would have been suspicious at that point and would have asked for more personal pictures. Most of the people I know don't know what I do so I couldn't exactly ask them to help out.

This guy went as far as to argue with himself from two separate emails to try and make it look like he wasn't the one who made the ad. He also sent me an email for some event that he was going to and claimed that he would be busy all day from 5am to 12pm. lol, (Who plans a 19 hour day?)

I'm not even mad that he did it. I'm more angry that he lied to me even when he was caught. To make things worse he pretended to be me! It really concerned me that someone would go to such great lengths to cover up something so stupid. If he had just confessed right away, we could have put it behind us. I'm not even mad that he did it, I'm mad that he denied it and for so long. He confessed and when I told him we couldn't be friends anymore and I would have to stop talking to him, I blocked him. I checked my archived messages later and he denied everything again. He doesn't understand that what he did was wrong. I'm so glad we aren't friends anymore.