On International Sweep Day this week the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) swept the Internet looking for sites which scam the young.
It seems the digital highway is littered with people pretending a position or occupation to which they are not entitled in the real world or dubiously offering goods and services they may not have the capacity to deliver.
However, not all misrepresentations out there in cyberspace are aimed at scamming money. Sometimes the motives are more complex.
The prevelance of individuals who pretend a military past has seen the formation of the Australian and New Zealand Military Impostors (ANZMI) website which appears to represent a group of irate individuals intent on exposing this form of fraud.
Of course military rank is not the only rank type assumed by the wannabe brigade. Just this week I was sent a link to one intriguing persona which has surfaced - a certain 'decorated' Superintendent Pieter Poynton APM (Retired).
I look forward to seeing how this latest phantom develops and how many online and print newspapers get taken in.
I look forward to seeing how this latest phantom develops and how many online and print newspapers get taken in.
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