Fake facebook account in my name

[Gooly]

Hi guys,

I don't have facebook. I'm currently a uni student living in Brighton, from London originally. I dont really keep in touch with anyone from London, but I have a very wide network from uni onwards down here.

I was recently told that there is a facebook profile in my name. I have quite an unusual name (it's actually spelt wrong compared to the usual spelling, and even then its a rare name, with a rare surname). I looked it up and it has the following details;

My home town, down to the specific borough and part of borough in London
My primary school
My secondary school
My university

The profile is friends with several people from my primary and secondary school, none of which I have ever spoken to upon progressing from those places. The URL is my name but with the surname spelt differently; it's spelt as a more common variation of my name. Presumably whoever made the account made the mistake at first and later corrected it. The profile was made in aug 2013, has a post on the 16th, friends added on the 20th, and a later post in feb this year with a simple location update of a random burger outfit in london, of which I've never heard.

Anyway, the profile is clearly meant to represent me. I know nothing about it and nobody who I am currently in contact with knows about it. The profile has none of my university friends or details, or a profile/cover picture.

Now, I can as far as I know report the profile as an impersonation to facebook and potentially get it shut down. However I'd really very much like to find out who has made it. This probably sounds very trivial to most people here, I would think it was to, but it's just very unsettling. I am a very private person and the reason why I dont keep in touch with people pre-uni was because I didnt particularly get on with most people I went to school with. I find it very very unsettling that there is quite a plausible facebook account in my name, linked to people I used to know.

Is there any way I can find out who made it? Or find out an IP address so I can see if it's from London or Brighton? Or do anything to help find out who made it? Ideas would be appreciated. I understand that I haven't given much context for people to start making cluedo guesses as to who in my life did it, it would take an age to detail anything like that. I'd just like to know if theres anything I can do to find out who made it.

[Gooly]

Thanks for the well written reply. Unfortunately the email address is hidden, which makes things alot harder.

Nobody who went to my primary school went to my secondary school, nor did anyone from my primary or secondary school go to my university. Everybody on the friends list went to either my primary or secondary school, and as far as I know there arent any particularly close links between them. It's very difficult, and after trying every angle I feel there is little I can do to narrow down who it may be from the information I have. As you say, I feel it's unlikely to be anyone on the list. I feel it's unlikely to be anyone who knows me particularly well as there are some random likes which I don't really know much about or follow, and most of the friends there I was not close to at all. They presumably came up on the "people you may know" upon creation of the profile.

I think the only way forward is using some form of digital method to help source who or where the profile came from, eg IP address or at least finding an email.

It is frustrating and very creepy. This has come from what is basically a past life, and I do not understand who, or why. There aren't really that many people who know all the details that are on there, ie my primary school, my secondary school and my university. People mostly either know the former two or the latter two. However actually trying to work from that list is still very difficult.

[Gooly]

Unfortunately I have tried adding and messaging the profile from another (relevant, not a random) account with no luck, the request is pending and the message is unseen.

There are no pictures, just one post showing a restaurant location in february and the original post with a song from Cypress Hill. Whilst I do listen to some rap/hip hop, i hadnt actually heard of cypress hill before now. Whoever made this knows some details about me, but doesnt know me well. Its very odd.

[Gooly]

After listening to their stuff, so am I haha. A case of knowing the songs but not who they were from. I'm still only just getting into hiphop/rap

[Gooly]

Hi everyone, bought an MX5 so forgot about this whole thing for a while, been too busy bumming men on the standard fit chrome luggage rack. The first few friends are mainly girls from my primary school. However, I don't know how any of them would know which uni I go to since I didnt really speak to anyone from my primary school after I left. I'd imagine what happened was that whoever made it linked my profile to the school and the year, and added those who came up on the suggested friends list.

The key point is that nobody from each school went to my next school, and I didnt keep in touch with anyone from them; so there are no links between them and my current life. On top of that, there are no friends linked to my uni on there. The whole thing feels like a cluedo game, only a very creepy one. I've racked my brains as to what clues can be gleaned from the profile itself but I really cant see anything unfortunately. I don't know whether or not to report it to facebook, I am holding out hope that something will be updated on the profile that will help give it away. If I report it, the profile will get shut down and I will never know who or why.

Also, no ex's, and one good thing about the creation of this profile is that it has made me aware of the lovely offerings from Cypress Hill.