When Tevita Galuoko died in December 2016 to leukemia, his family was devastated.
Nearly two years later, as his wife, Galuoko Secivo and her three children remember their late father and husband, a fake profile with Tevita Galuoko’s photo appeared on Facebook a few weeks ago.
The wife is concerned about the disrespect towards her husband.
Secivo’s grief has now turned to outrage as she has asked people to help report the fake profile, Marie Violet, showing a photo of her and her late husband.
She said on her official Facebook account to help her help Marie Violet know that she doesn’t need to pretend to be accepted, liked or admired.
Secivo also says she hopes the person who created the fake profile will have the confidence to be herself one day.
There have been dozens of cases where identity thieves create fake Facebook profiles in Fiji as the largest social network in the world struggles in this continuing battle.
The problem has become so big that Facebook said that it has disabled over 1.3 billion fake profiles just in the past year.
In the first three months of this year Facebook took down 837 million pieces of spam and disabled 583 million fake accounts.
Facebook also now have 20,000 people working on security and content review across the world.
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