Police in Australia have claimed that a man used Facebook to lure a teenage girl into a deathtrap.
18-year-old Nona Belomesoff's body was found dumped in a suburb near her home in Sydney. Christopher James Dannevig, 20 has been charged with her murder.
Dannevig apparently used the name 'Jason Green' to establish a fake profile on Facebook and Bebo and set himself up as the manager of an animal rescue service WIRES.
An animal lover, Ms Belomesoff was supposed to meet the man at a nature reserve for a job he had offered her.
Representatives of the state police have warned against the dangers of meeting people using social networking sites. Detective Inspector Russell Oxford of New South Wales Police told reporters that, "It's an area where predators and perverts and other people just get on to. You just don't know who you could be talking to".
This is the second alleged murder in Australia which has been linked to Facebook. In June 2008, the mutilated body of 22 year old Sarah Elston was found in a Brisbane flat. She was murdered by her ex-boyfriend who set up a meeting through Facebook.
Psychologists have recently written on the dangers of trusting online contacts and warned that psychopaths could be scouting social networking websites, similar to the way many serial killers drove around looking for hitchhikers.
The accused Dannevig was apparently a loner and had only six friends respond to a request to attend his 21st birthday. On his Bebo profile, he had expressed his love for horror movies and claimed that nothing scared him except for jail.
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