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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:42:47 +0000

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By: Jason TC

Jason TC — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:34:24 +0000

After further review: the people who are making some of the fake groups are the following:

Chris Smith from Tallahassee Florida (Club Promoter)

A company called YourFunStop… in the groups they link to a YouTube video of the schools fight song… They words to the song are incorrect was they are written in the group and on the youtube videos. In the description of each youtube video it says:

“Visit http://www.your-fun-stop.com to buy this video and song for $1 or to get this as your ringtone.

Hear and sing-a-long with the Florida State University fight song!

Visit http://www.your-fun-stop.com to purchase this video.”

My guess is they are trying to sell ringtones of college fightsongs to incoming students.

What do you think??

By: Kris Gallagher

Kris Gallagher — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:18:15 +0000

DePaul’s been hit, too–they actually made two groups, both identical copy, one with six members, the other with none. They use our logo — we may go after them on that. We’ve already squatted our own 2014 fan pages, but they aren’t active yet.

Has anyone figured out who is behind this yet?

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:14:43 +0000

I’ve not seen any Suffolk groups just yet, but we created our page just after the 2013 fiasco and made it live about 3 months ago. We’re also including it in all of our collateral and have connected it to the university FB page and the Suffolk web. Here’s hoping for no FBG2!

@jesskry

By: Mark Rothbaum

Mark Rothbaum — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:09:09 +0000

Any idea who is behind it this time? Is it College Prowler again or someone else?

By: return of the fake facebook class groups: are you ready? « InsideTimsHead

return of the fake facebook class groups: are you ready? « InsideTimsHead — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:40:35 +0000

[...] after sleuthing by New Paltz’s ever-alert Rachel Reuben, she Brad are warning people once again about fake Class of 2014 groups. Many of the members are the same and contain the same [...]

By: TimN

TimN — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:24:55 +0000

Yep, you can add SUNY Oswego to the list. The people aren’t the same but the copy is. Plus Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, California University of Pennsylvania, Covenant College, Middlebury College, Towson University, Marymount Manhattan College and fellow SUNY college at Buffalo. Looks like a couple different sets of “members” … but the “related groups” kinda gives it away.

I’m now happy with the decision to grab an Official Class of 2014 group, which I just rolled out in terms of promotion today with our first major Open House. Having a Fans page and official channels of the college to promote — thanks to last year’s lessons learned — leaves us in a better position than when this surprised us.

By: Billy Adams

Billy Adams — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:42:41 +0000

I just got a notice today that I need to authenticate my association with my Universities page because I’m an admin. Looks like they are taking proactive steps to ensure that the people running the pages are the people they say they are.

By: Rachel Reuben

Rachel Reuben — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:21:16 +0000

Yep, looks like we’ve been hit too. Here we go again. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=165692041619&ref=search&sid=27903251.3324319099..1