Deception online is a
very common thing and one that feeds into the hysteria of predators and
dishonest people online. Deception
occurs when another person or group of people deliberately make another
individual a belief known to be false. Facebook
and Twitter accounts have increased the amount and level of deception because
of the ability to have many accounts. However, the ease of getting an account
also makes it easy for individuals to deceive one another. Previous work on
deception found that people in general lie routinely, and several efforts have
sought to detect and understand deception. Deception has been used in various contexts
throughout human history to enhance attackers' tactics. Social media
provide new environments and technologies for potential deceivers. There are
many examples of people being deceived through social media, with some
suffering devastating consequences to their personal lives. For example many people
watch the show cat fish and that shows deception all the time the entire show
is about being deceived. But are these people naïve or believe what they see is
the truth. We are horrible at detecting
deceivers because of context competent liars adjust to suspicion, liar behavior
changes with the situation, believe myths and stereotypes like the gaze
avoidance, nervous, and fidgeting and finally we overlook on purpose due to
having a sense of security or not wanting to believe the person is a fake. If you’re instincts are telling you this isn’t
right listen to yourself. A story I came across on Abc.news.com was about a a Two
middle-aged lovers who started affair by both posing as teenagers... before
torrid romance drove Sunday school teacher to murder 'rival' over woman who
didn't exist. Thomas Montgomery began an unplanned online affair
with a girl he believed was 18-years-old called 'Jessi' Montgomery told 'Jessi'
he was an 18-year-old Marine When Montgomery's wife discovered the affair she
sent 'Jessi' a photo of her 46-year-old husband and their two children 'Jessi'
broke off the affair and began a new one with Montgomery's 22-year-old
co-worker Brian Barrett Montgomery became so jealous he shot and killed
Barrett It turned out 'Jessi' was in fact a 45-year-old woman called Mary
Shieler who used her own daughter's pictures to send to men online. “Jessi” was
really her mother pretending to be her online and the real Jessi had
no idea this was occurring. Montgomery pleaded guilty to Barrett's murder and
was sentenced to 20-years. Prosecutors in New York desperately searched for a
reason to charge Mary Shieler, but ultimately, could find no law she had
broken.In her defense she claimed that she was keeping Montgomery online so
that he couldn't talk to other teenagers. Shieler has never apologized to her
daughter and her husband divorced her and Jessi cut off contact.Brian Barrett's
parents began a petition to for laws to protect against future deceivers. Since
this type of behavior is fairly new in the cyber world the lawmakers have to be
very specific when making new laws to prevent these types of occurances from
happening again.
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