Do you Google your blind date? Maybe you should...

Last week, NBC Bay Area covered a new wave of online fraud that's reaching you through your online dating profile. Vicky Nguyen reported that scammers are hijacking innocent people's photos, setting up online profiles and using them to take advantage of daters. How do you ensure your face, or those of family, friends and dates, isn't hijacked?

Our own Steve Russell (and founder of Prism Skylabs), an expert in computer vision and search, joined Vicky to show viewers how to serach and scan public images in order to detect fraudulent online profiles, if they exist. See video below for more details. Now, go ahead and stalk yourself on Google!

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Feds Shut Down Cyber Criminals' Website

The domain name Callservice.biz has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office, for suspicion of operating the website with the intent to provide fraud services to bank and identity thieves.

Thieves would provide stolen personal information, such as account numbers, social security numbers, addresses and passwords to the site, and the site provided English- and German-speaking posers to verbally authorize various transactions, such as wire transfers, unblocking accounts or changing the contact information on an account.

Callservice.biz now displays the FBI and Justice Department seals on the  homepage. The authorities also shut down cardingworld.cc, which hosted the site.