Layla South
11-03-2007, 06:16 PM
http://www.kirotv.com/news/14490250/detail.html
A Mill Creek woman began receiving phone calls for sex after someone posted a fake ad of her in the erotic services section on Craigslist.org.
“I thought it was the wrong number from a couple people at first,” Rochelle said.
“He said ‘I really liked your picture.’ I asked him, ‘Where did you see this picture?’” Rochelle said.
The person told her he saw it on seattle.craigslist.org, where someone used Rochelle’s information and picture and suggested she was a prostitute.
According to Rochelle, anyone who clicked on the e-mail address got an auto reply with Rochelle’s phone number.
“I don’t know why somebody would decide to do that to anybody and I don’t know if they really understand the severity of what they did,” Rochelle said.
Whoever posted the ad used an image of Rochelle from her MySpace.com page alongside an image of an anonymous nude woman.
Rochelle’s MySpace page is set to private so she suspects whoever did this had access to her page and cell phone number and has access to someone she knows.
“I try to think that everybody I know is a good person and wouldn’t do something this silly. It’s silly,” Rochelle said.
Rochelle told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Craigslist has removed the ad but will not give her any information that could identify the poster until police get a search warrant.
Mill Creek police said they have started their investigation and it appears a crime has been committed.
In 2006 Congress passed a federal cyber-stalking law, and in 2004 the Washington State Legislature passed a similar state law after a Seattle woman was stalked online by an ex-boyfriend..
A Mill Creek woman began receiving phone calls for sex after someone posted a fake ad of her in the erotic services section on Craigslist.org.
“I thought it was the wrong number from a couple people at first,” Rochelle said.
“He said ‘I really liked your picture.’ I asked him, ‘Where did you see this picture?’” Rochelle said.
The person told her he saw it on seattle.craigslist.org, where someone used Rochelle’s information and picture and suggested she was a prostitute.
According to Rochelle, anyone who clicked on the e-mail address got an auto reply with Rochelle’s phone number.
“I don’t know why somebody would decide to do that to anybody and I don’t know if they really understand the severity of what they did,” Rochelle said.
Whoever posted the ad used an image of Rochelle from her MySpace.com page alongside an image of an anonymous nude woman.
Rochelle’s MySpace page is set to private so she suspects whoever did this had access to her page and cell phone number and has access to someone she knows.
“I try to think that everybody I know is a good person and wouldn’t do something this silly. It’s silly,” Rochelle said.
Rochelle told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Craigslist has removed the ad but will not give her any information that could identify the poster until police get a search warrant.
Mill Creek police said they have started their investigation and it appears a crime has been committed.
In 2006 Congress passed a federal cyber-stalking law, and in 2004 the Washington State Legislature passed a similar state law after a Seattle woman was stalked online by an ex-boyfriend..