Cheating Online
Don't Get Caught Cheating Online
Today the internet provides so many different ways to interact with anyone and everyone no matter where they are in real time. This powerful ability to communicate and exchange information has of course facilitated cheating online. Maintaining an extramarital affair and communicating on the sly with your lover has never been easier. Setting up secret a rendezvous, exchanging naughty pictures & emails, buying gifts for your lover, etc… The list goes on forever and unfortunately so do the risks of getting caught. If you are having an affair you must take extreme care with the information you put out there as it can and will come back to bust you..
The most important aspect to avoid is Social Networking. This is an unfortunate trade off if you’re having an affair. If you’re cheating on your partner or have anything to hide in general, putting your life on display is not a good idea. Basically if you’re leading a double life, you cannot afford for these “two lives” to interact. They must remain separate at all times. Sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Google Buzz, etc will tie both lives together and ultimately expose you. A good resource for shutting down and eliminating your online persona is the Suicide Machine. This wonderfully automated tool is easy to setup and basically auto pilots its way into removing all traces of your Web 2.0 life.
We’re also seeing more and more social networking information become evidence in divorce cases. Below is an excellent article from the NY Post by Dareh Gregorian which provides more detail on the dangers of Social Networking and how the information available there can be used against you..
Facebook 'em!
Online evidence nailing straying spouses
More people are cheating on their spouses using Facebook -- and more divorce lawyers are returning to the scene of the crime for evidence.
A whopping 81 percent of matrimonial lawyers say that in the past five years they've seen a massive spike in the use of social-networking information as evidence of infidelity, a new poll shows. .
The most widely used cyber-evidence -- including messages to lovers and incriminating photos -- is found on Facebook, the survey from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers reveals.
"Every client I've seen in the last six months had a Facebook page," said the group's vice-president, Ken Altshuler, "and the first piece of advice I give them is to terminate their page immediately."
Sixty-six percent of those surveyed said they'd used Facebook postings as evidence, with 15 percent from MySpace and 5 percent from Twitter.
In one case, he was representing a woman getting divorced from her alcoholic husband and also seeking custody of their kids. The man had told the judge he had found God and hadn't had a drink in months.
"It was all the stuff you're supposed to say," Altshuler said.
The claim was exposed as bogus thanks to Facebook pictures of the man partying at a friend's house three weeks before the court hearing..
"The friend had a picture of him holding a beer in each hand with a joint in his mouth," Altshuler said, leading the judge to question the man's credibility.
"If you have your picture taken, you never know where it's going to wind up," Altshuler said.
He also cited another recent custody case where his client's ex-wife had claimed she was engaged and set to be married in a bid to show how stable her household was.
That was called into question by the woman's Facebook posting where she wrote "she'd broken up with her abusive boyfriend and that if anybody had a rich friend to let her know," Altshuler said.
He said the posting was given to his client by a friend of the ex-husband who was still Facebook friends with the ex-wife.
"People don't think about who has access to their Facebook page," Altshuler said, and faux Facebook friends will usually sell out a true pal's spouse.
"It's often the third party who's the source of information," he said.
"Don't do anything because you don't know who's looking. A good attorney can have a field day with this information."
