ok this is weird. just googled my dd's name and her name comes up on a website on deviantart. have just had an almighty talk with her but she says it's not her. BUT there are pics on there from our

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pc and a profile with reference to things she like including a user name. There is more info too about the inside of our home, and tbh i am rather freaked out.

we were googling for a site to see how popular our names were.

the site Deviant art is one i 'may' have liked or been linked too by my best friend on facebook. DD is totally adamant it's not her.

it's me and her here. noone has access to our home or pc/laptop.

shit.

no it would be a bit daft really, and pointless. a friend, well i have thought thru a few but noone springs to mind. have rung mothers of the two best friends. will wait and see maybe the kids are more clever than i thought.

moshi monsters, that was a revalation going thru all her post it note messages to people. i'd no idea of the gossip levels.

googling deviant art i found this about phishing scam right on the time the posting had been put on it's site.

scam on deviantart

the fact that her desktop background has changed tho on our pc makes me think some sort of scam rather than a silly mate. No friends have been over here or rather used the pc here for months.

Why do you have a government laptop? And why are you letting a child play with one unsupervised?

If it's a work laptop, you need to tell your work IT support about this and let them sort it out. Resetting passwords won't help if your computer is being hacked - the hacker could gain access to the new passwords or reset them again to something else. You should rather contact the websites (deviantart etc) to have the accounts deleted, then create new ones.

If someone has hacked you & been able to change her desktop, then you need to check your virus software & firewall & the websites you & your daughter frequent. Because your PC security is very lax!

Personally, I think your daughter is still lying to you. I don't know why a hacker would come in through your firewall just to change a background & post a few pics from your PC on deviantart, under the guise of your daughter. Sorry, but it isn't plausible. Hackers want personal info, bank details, passwords etc. They certainly wouldn't post photos on a website that would be easily found by goggling a name/nickname!

I don't think you know your daughter as well as you think you do, tbh. Mine is 8 & can feign shock when she wants to get out of trouble.

I just think it is odd that a hacker would collect info from your PC, make an account on DA with your daughter's email, nickname etc & post your home photos there. Just doesn't make sense to me.

Why has she got a facebook page at 9 anyway?

Do you really think that there would never be a day that your dd would lie to you? It seems you are so intent in proving that she couldn't have possibly lied to you that you are ignoring the most plausible answer.

I personally don't agree with children having facebook accounts. It's dangerous and unnecessary.

OP has said her dd doesn't have fb

dd does not have a facebook account.

the laptop, it is one that i got with a grant 2 yrs ago, when Gordon was saying all kids must be able to have access to the web. so if you were on child tax credits, you could apply. I think there was a limited fund for this. My mentioning this is becuase when the laptop came it was all set up with a plethora of security pre installed. ie dd's learner user account would not allow access to such things as facebook, youtube.

This laptop, and my home pc share wifi. password protected hugely long wep key code, so i thought we were safe form anyone using that.

Have now discovered that there are messages on her moshi monsters in her name ie under her user that she has not written. You can see the ones she has written. They ask about codes, berries and hints. The ones she has not written are in text speak and sound gangsta. We have been thru the lot together. Someone has got into her MOshi MOnsters account. Her account was set up by me, through my email address, when the verification comes to the parent. Having had some weird emails last summer supposedly from viable contacts to my hotmail, but not sent i am assuming some sort of phishing scam. This is when all this happened, the deviant art account the moshi monsters.

I agree there is no reason for a hacker to bother. Yet it could be some prat messing about. I googled moshi monsters hackers, and it seems that kids have gone in only to find their 'home' trashed. Some kid or teen or adult could do this.

it is a plausable answer to be her, sorry , i keep going back to the other posts and wanting to post again.

someone has very likely done this to us. could it be someone we know? on one of the pictures on deviant art there is a photo of a woman, and the person who is supposedly my dd has written 'want to keep me warm on a cold winter's night'
this is not my dd. i know her. on another picture, someone has challeneged my 'daughter' about it's originality and the person meant to be my daughter has written 'oh it's not mine i am putting up my friends pictures, she's too young to join this site'

this points to it being someone who isn't my daughter. or she's bloody deviant herself.

This all just doesn't quite add up for me - how would a hacker know all the personal stuff and why would they bother to set up an account in her name?

Could it be possible that a close friend/member of the family could have something to do with it?

Thanks for explaining about the laptop - I assumed you worked for the government and it was a work computer!

You poor thing. What a creepy feeling that must be.

I have a "call-out computer expert" who comes over for a small fee and "cleans up" my computer from all the weird stuff I don't understand going on. Nothing dodgy but too slow etc and he installed a free anti-virus programme for example.

It's well worth the price.

Sorry, I misunderstood re facebook because you had mentioned listing her interests, I see that you meant on your facebook not hers.

only have ever allowed access remotely to my upstairs pc in springtime 2010.

there's a reference on one of the photo's of our cat on deviant art saying our cat 'is maybe playing dead'. The cat had already died a few months previously. it's a bit sick. dd wouldn't have written that. she was devastated.

have just had a text from a dad of one of dd's schoolmates who is also on moshimonsters, and he has agreed that there are some posts on her pinboard made by his daughter that use language/speak thats totally not like her either.

yes amberleaf, thanks for coming back. i have probably over the couple of years mentioned things like 'oh yes dd's into this or that' just like we do on here.

A few times recently at work I have had to deal with problems linked with kids and Facebook. When parents have seen printouts of their children's comments on Facebook they have nearly always been surprised by the way their children speak to each other, particularly online.

My dd did something stupid online that was our of character , she feigned shock, upset and outrage. I almost believed her until I was faced with the evidence.

because i am a muppet probably kellog.

totally agree with some of the language, not so much swearing but the grown up slangyness. like 'wiv or kool' but dd doesn't know 'yy m8 or gr8' that sort of thing.

I am sorry, I am being harsh. Because of work dp and I are strict about people accessing our computers.

thanks suburb, after this i will talk to someone. get help for settings. you don't know till it happens to you.