Willie,

Who knows how old that person is. We only know "her" lies and have no clue of the true person behind "Brooke".

The frauds have been pretty easy for me to spot. The only one I was fooled by was ChinookCrazy and that was because I didn't pay much attention to her.

You asked how to tell if its a fraud. Well, Brooke was a member here for a really long time and had managed to only post one pic of "Moose" and none of Zoey. In this day and age, that is really weird because she could have gotten a disposable camera and developed the pics on CD. A few people suggested it to her and she said she'd do it, but never did. Also, she kept saying she would go to meet PT people in Florida and California, but she'd come up with some excuse at the last minute. She never really talked about her dogs much, she mainly posted in controversial threads. She joined this board looking for fights like a heat seeking missle. I remember being shocked at how eager she was to jump to a fight when she barely had 10 posts! Also, all of her stories about being married in Greece, her parents buying her an expensive house in the Hamptons, etc etc etc .. all that sounded like a bunch of bologna. If she had that much money, yet didn't have the money to "fix" her "broken" digital camera, that's just too weird. There were a lot of other things that didn't add up at all. Also, the Lab she posted in those pics is not the same Lab she claimed was Moose (that one pic that was in her sig for awhile).

It was easy to tell with Chiren as well. But this isn't about her so I won't go into that. We also caught someone else (forgot their name), but they posted pics of their dog and every picture was a different size and different quality. When you looked closer, you could tell it wasn't even the same dog. That person was kind of lazy because we searched on Google and found all those pics. I think Brooke at least was smarter. She looked long and hard for pics she could pass off as her own, and I'm pretty sure she wasn't dumb enough to get them off Google.

IF she lied about her father dying, I have no sympathy for her and I think that is one of the most evil things a person can do. You do not lie or joke about death. That is WRONG.