Wrong Man Swamped By Calif. Sex Scandal Anger (Mike Duvall)

[Kadie]

Sep 28, 2009 11:33 pm US/Pacific
Wrong Man Swamped By Calif. Sex Scandal Anger

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―

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"I opened up my e-mails and it just started scrolling and scrolling and scrolling," Duvall said in a phone interview with CBS13.

The misdirected e-mails could be diplomatically described as unkind; many used words like "scumbag," "embarrassment" and "disgrace" in regards to Duvall's character.

"I started to open them up one by one, and I was getting horrendously challenging, difficult e-mails from people in California I had never heard of in my life," the Utah man said. "There's people wanting my wife to leave me, wanting me to resign as a disgrace to America, they want me bankrupt."

Duvall's wife began asking questions about the flood of messages when they kept arriving.

"She said, 'Honey, what in the world have you been up to that I didn't even know about,'" Duvall said.

The case of mistaken identity came as a surprise to the man who runs his own identity theft protection business, but he's trying to cope with the dubious distinction of sharing a name with the political scoundrel of the moment.

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http://cbs13.com/local/mike.duvall.mistaken.2.1214680.html

[anigbrowl]

1. Stupid people are stupid :-/

When I read stories like this I wonder if an internet driving license wouldn't be a good idea after all :shrug:

[madmusic]

3. drunk on anonymity and driving

There will be an internet driver's license eventually but someone will figure how to get around it.

[seabeyond]

2. mistaken identity came as a surprise .... "honey????" lol. funny. nt