Police investigating harassment case

The IU Police Department is currently investigating a harassment case involving someone using a student’s identity on a dating Web site.

At 6:25 p.m. Monday a student reported the incident after she realized someone was using her identity without her permission, IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger said, reading from a police report.

She received an e-mail at 11:27 p.m. Saturday from farmersonly.com regarding her new account, but she believed the e-mail to be spam and deleted it, Minger said.

On Monday, she received another e-mail, and, after logging onto the Web site discovered someone had used her personal information, including pictures from her Facebook profile, to set up an account, Minger said.

She is unaware of any suspects, but she was a member of student government so it might have been someone she previously had friction with, she said.

IUPD is currently investigating the case because often the perpetrator is guilty of other crimes as well, Minger said. For example, they could be involved with identity theft or computer fraud.

“Sometimes these can be tracked to a very positive outcome,” Minger said.