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Couple targeted by Facebook 'friend'
Updated: Thursday, 25 Mar 2010, 7:46 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 25 Mar 2010, 7:39 PM EDT
* By: Deanna Dewberry
FLOYD COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) - A Floyd County couple's home was burglarized recently, which is not an unusual crime. But the thieves' are unusual and the couple caught it all on tape.
Home security cameras captured men as they unhurriedly took computers and a flatscreen TV right off the wall. It's as though the men knew how much time they had therefore, they had no fear of getting caught.
Keri McMullen and her fiancé Kurt Pendleton believe that was exactly the case.
The burglary occurred shortly after the couple left for a concert and they'd told their more than 500 Facebook friends where they were going and what time they'd be there. McMullen believes one of the burglars is a Facebook friend she's not seen in decades.
"I looked at his page. I had not looked at his page at all. I hadn't seen this person in a long time and he has a twin if it's not him," said McMullen.
"And if we hadn't gotten it on camera, we would have never I mean not in a million years suspected him," said Pendleton.
McMullen and Pendleton installed the security cameras because they're selling their house and strangers frequently tour the home. Four days after installation, those cameras caught a suspected Facebook thief carting off $10,000 worth of household items.
The Floyd County couple learned an important lesson about friend and foe on Facebook.
"I think the social networkings are good to have. You just have to be smart about it. Just because you're trustworthy and a nice person does not mean everyone on your Facebook is," said McMullen.
McMullen says she has removed every friend from her Facebook account who she doesn't know well. And she's now much more careful about what she posts.
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Networks talk to each other. If you've got so many friends on facebook that you can't all fit in a big room or around a banquet table for coffee, you might want to restrict just how much information about your day to day life you put online. It sucks in a way, but forewarned is forearmed. ;D
Couple targeted by Facebook 'friend'
Updated: Thursday, 25 Mar 2010, 7:46 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 25 Mar 2010, 7:39 PM EDT
* By: Deanna Dewberry
FLOYD COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) - A Floyd County couple's home was burglarized recently, which is not an unusual crime. But the thieves' are unusual and the couple caught it all on tape.
Home security cameras captured men as they unhurriedly took computers and a flatscreen TV right off the wall. It's as though the men knew how much time they had therefore, they had no fear of getting caught.
Keri McMullen and her fiancé Kurt Pendleton believe that was exactly the case.
The burglary occurred shortly after the couple left for a concert and they'd told their more than 500 Facebook friends where they were going and what time they'd be there. McMullen believes one of the burglars is a Facebook friend she's not seen in decades.
"I looked at his page. I had not looked at his page at all. I hadn't seen this person in a long time and he has a twin if it's not him," said McMullen.
"And if we hadn't gotten it on camera, we would have never I mean not in a million years suspected him," said Pendleton.
McMullen and Pendleton installed the security cameras because they're selling their house and strangers frequently tour the home. Four days after installation, those cameras caught a suspected Facebook thief carting off $10,000 worth of household items.
The Floyd County couple learned an important lesson about friend and foe on Facebook.
"I think the social networkings are good to have. You just have to be smart about it. Just because you're trustworthy and a nice person does not mean everyone on your Facebook is," said McMullen.
McMullen says she has removed every friend from her Facebook account who she doesn't know well. And she's now much more careful about what she posts.
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Networks talk to each other. If you've got so many friends on facebook that you can't all fit in a big room or around a banquet table for coffee, you might want to restrict just how much information about your day to day life you put online. It sucks in a way, but forewarned is forearmed. ;D
