Every community will have lots of frauds. Cheating someone is real fun for some people. What they do in Orkut is .. they get the photos from other peoples profiles and create new profiles with same name. That way they can easily cheat people. The loss is for the origional owner of the profile.
Lets call the origional owner of the profile as Mr. x. The fraud might say to the friends of x that x is creating a new profile and will try to get personal information from the friend of x. This is very dangerous.
To stop this the users can declare to his/her friends that you have only one profile. Actually such a declaration led to this post. I got a similar declaration from one of my friend who was a victim of such fraudulent activity. And I would advice that every user must limit to a single profile. If you are creating a secong one tell your friends through personal email that you are doing that.
Its really hard to detect such faudulent activity online. Precaution is the best thing. Do not reveal personal or potential information online unless you know that the connection is secure.
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