Fake Facebook account target expat schoolgirls in Bahrain

Manama: Several school girls in Bahrain are being targeted by someone using a fake Facebook account asking them to send and share indecent chats and images, DT News has learnt. An Indian School Bahrain (ISB) student said a fake account was set up under the pseudonym of a secondary school teacher enticing her to lesbian activities.

Following is the complaint she sent to DT News : “I'm a student of ISB from senior section. I would like to bring one important issue into your notice; some people are creating fake accounts in Facebook using some lady's image and are messaging to students. They are focusing mainly on girls. 

This has happened to me on Wednesday (25/01/2017). A lady messaged me, and she was saying that she is a teacher of ISB, 10th grade and she is newly joined. This was just a trap. As I have reacted the account is deactivated. From that account friend request has been sent to many other girls as well. Now this account is deactivated but some other day a new account will be created and will repeat the same thing and it will spoil our school's image. Hope you will take necessary action against this and bring this issue to the notice of everyone in Bahrain through your newspaper. Also attaching the screenshot of the conversation.

Yours faithfully …(name withheld)’’. School officials said they have lodged an official complaint against the fake account which targeted the ISB students. Studies show young people are more likely to engage in the online risky behaviour. According to TRA Bahrain National Safety Review (2015) 22.7 percent of young people surveyed have added strangers whom they have never met before offline.