We've always wondered if you could get in trouble for putting someone else's info into a sleazy personal ad. Turns out that, according to the Miami Herald, yeah, it's a serious crime.
A North Miami-Dade real estate agent was charged Wednesday with posting
fake escort ads on the Internet using a rival's phone numbers, sparking
hundreds of raunchy calls that nearly drove the woman to a nervous
breakdown.
[...]
The cyberstalking case began last summer when Debbie Blasberg reported receiving repeated calls at home from strange men.
Blasberg, a married mother of two, said she received more than 700 phone calls ``at all hours of the night.''
Dean Isenberg, the offending agent, was caught because 9 of
the 26 ads placed in Blasberg's name were traced to IP addresses he
owned. Not that we've ever thought about doing this ourselves, but
couldn't we just go to an internet cafe, get a new Gmail address, pay
in cash, and never worry about getting caught via IP's or e-mail? Er,
couldn't one do it that way, we mean. One. Not us, of course. We'd never actually do anything like this.
But whattaya think, doable?
[Via Consumerist]