Facebook is Being used by Criminals to Lure Potential Victims.

here are many criminals in the world using Facebook to lure potential victims. This social networking site is helping as a platform to gain the person’s friendship and create different identities that they will trust. These villains utilize social networks to kidnap, rape and kill innocent victims. Everyday more and more youths are using Facebook in the world without the knowledge that it could a fatal entertainment.

However, many people think that this could not happen in Europe or in The United States, which only is happening in South America. This is not true. These issues (identity verification, privacity and safety) are happen in many countries in the world, as there is one case in Bogota-Colombia, and another in Sedgefield-England both about young ladies killed by "friends" that they met on Facebook. Therefore, first Facebook is being used by criminals to lure potential victims, and second; villains in some cases are using fake profile.

In consequence, there are several similarities in the use of Facebook by criminals, like tools to lure potential victims. Ever thought these murders are in different continents; they looking on Facebook as a potential tool for to help them.

        Besides, young girls are using Facebook to meet new people, to make friends and sometimes find a couple. These young are between 15 and 20 years old. Like is the case of "Ana Maria Chavez a 19-years-old girl student from Bogota-Colombia was killed by two men who she had met through Facebook. She had accepted to one of the two men who committed the crime as her friend on the site. Seemingly, he gained the victim's true and they started a friendly relationship though this social networking site.

Likewise, is Ashleigh Hall’s case; a 17-year-old girl student from Sedgefield-England, who was murders by man she met on Facebook. When she met him, he said “that she was father of the boy that she was waiting". He then kidnapped, raped and murdered her. 

In addition, criminal are using fake profile and attractive pictures. In South America, in the Ana Chavez's case the murders had fakes pictures and information profile was not real. Similar to this, happened with Ashleigh Hall where her supposed friend had used the fake identity of a teenager boy to entice Ashleigh into meeting him. He created the fake profile on Facebook and used pictures of a boy in his late teens.

  finally, In South America as the world more young are using are socials networking for to meet or have friends, however, it helped as a platform to gain the girls’ friendship and create different identities that they could trust. In conclusion, although there are many cases about criminals using Facebook like a tool though to find more victims, every day more young are using is social networking for to meet friends.