According to a News10 article, 'online impersonators have sent Twitter messages "signed" by celebrities, pretended to be someone else to send obscene e-mails, even subjected others to unwanted sexual advances by assuming their identity to post invitations on adult sites. In one example, a woman angry about her ex-husband's girlfriend pretended to be the girlfriend's daughter on an adult dating site, causing the daughter to receive lewd responses'.
California is now updating its impersonation laws making it a misdemeanor to assume someone else's identity to harm, intimidate, threaten or defraud. The new law takes effect on January 1, 2011.
