Cregan has seen himself on Facebook under the names \u201cDavid Marc Cregan,\u201d \u201cEric Cregan,\u201d \u201cCreagan Anderson,\u201d \u201cCregan Diamond,\u201d (um, okay) and his favorite, the ever-original \u201cCregan Cregan.\u201d To date, he estimates there have been over 100 fake profiles on social media using his information.<\/p>\n
Cregan, who is a reservist currently serving on active duty, routinely reports the fake profiles to Facebook but the automated format of the complaint process means in some of the cases Facebook comes back to him and claims the profiles don\u2019t meet their criteria for removal.<\/p>\n
“About 70 percent of the time they take them down right away, but if you can believe it, there are times I have to go back to them and say \u2018Hey, this is really not me and I\u2019m for sure not a “private in the Navy” as they have listed.'” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t get messages from folks asking for help to get fake profiles removed. The only time that my own profile was replicated was when the DRG tried to troll for my friends. Facebook was pretty quick to respond. Now one of my daily task is searching on my name to find phony profiles.<\/p>\n
But if these trolls weren’t successful, they wouldn’t do it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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