成りすまし ー impostor

フェースブックで成りすましの被害が増加しているそうです。


Last week Eduardo Roman, a hairstylist in Los Angeles, took a break and (of course) checked his phone. He discovered a flood of messages, all from alarmed friends telling him the same thing: “You need to report this man in Greece. He’s pretending to be you.”

Roman checked the impostor’s page, and found his own face (with a different name) looking back at him. “I started to freak out when I saw my picture as this guy’s profile photo,” said Roman. “His pictures were all me!”
(Don’t become a victim to a Facebook impostor. USA Today.)


"impostor"とはつまり他人に成りすます人のことです。

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