My step brother and his girlfriend made a fake profile of me on facebook using my pictures and writing false information about me. The information that they have falsified on the profile could cost me alot including my job.
Sounds like a good claim for identity theft as well as some civil causes of action, such as misappropriation of name/likeness, which would allow for recovery of money damages.
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