So I get a message on Facebook earlier today, pointing me to some dodgy gaming forum, with a post from ‘CraigGrannell’ stating.

I’m new. from retro gamer magazine. how are you guys doing?

The only thing is, I didn’t write this (which should be obvious on the basis that I have some command of the English language, but my doppelgänger has still to learn about capital letters).

This rather begs the question, why on earth would anyone pretend to be me? I mean, I like writing for Retro Gamer and all, but I can’t imagine there’s much cachet in that, nor in being a slightly greying freelance hack from Hampshire.

Anyway, I’m suitably creeped out by this, so I thought I’d share.

Update: For having the audacity to alert the forum’s administrators about this problem, I have now been banned from it. Nice.