Very late last night we learned that Lonelygirl15, the star of the YouTube mini series drama (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lonelygirl15)had been exposed as a fraud. Lonelygirl15 was not a home-schooled 16-year-old girl named Bree, but instead was an actress named Jessica Rose.What is most applicable for our readers is to reiterate how we need to be extremely careful about what information about us appears on the internet. Here is the strategy that was used to ’out’ Lonliegirl15 by Matt. Matt Foremski is the 18-year-old son of Tom Foremski:
I was surfing the article on Lonelygirl15 on TMZ.com when I came across a comment that linked to a private MySpace page that was allegedly that of the actress who plays Lonelygirl15. As the profile was set to ’private,’ there was no real info one could glean from the page. However, when I queried Google for that particular MySpace user name, ’jeessss426,’ I found a Google cache from the page a few months ago when it was still public. (Taken from Matt’s website: http://www.lg15.com/ )
