The grief-stricken twin sister of a woman tragically killed in a bike riding accident earlier this year has called out a twisted Facebook troll who created a fake profile mimicking her late twin, Channel Nine reports.
As reported by Nine News, the sickening fake account which appeared in the mourning family’s friend request notifications featured Madison Lyden’s profile picture, the young woman who died in August after swerving out of the way of an Uber stopped in a bike lane in New York City.
She was cycling with a friend while on the “trip of a lifetime” near Central Park when she was fatally struck by a garbage truck driver in oncoming traffic.
But not only are her loved ones mourning the loss of 23-year-old Madison, two weeks ago, they had to deal with a nasty Facebook prank which saw a false account created in her name.
On receiving a friend request from the fake Madison Lyden, her twin sister Paige was at first confused. But these feelings quickly faded, then transitioned to feeling “sick to her stomach” at the thought of someone committing such a cruel prank.
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Whoever you are, you are a sick sick sick person and you are the lowest of low life scum to ever walk the earth.
What sort of sad, sick little person does this sort of shit for fun?
This is a relatively common thing on Facebook and it probably had nothing to do with the death of Paige's sister. That was likely just a very unfortunate coincidence.
I often get caught by the spam filter when I try to post links but do a search for "Facebook cloning scam" and read the second article "What is Facebook Cloning Scam?" (the first article is about a hoax, which is not related to the scam). It's happened to friends of mine twice and I've heard about it happening to others as well.