Unlike engineer Isis Anchalee whose Facebook account was deactivated because she was mistaken for a terrorist because of her name, Australian man Phuc Dat Bich really deserves to be blocked from the social media site.
It turns out after his story of suffering the same fate as Isis in the hands of Facebook became viral on social media that it was fake. The real name of the 23-year-old Melbourne resident is Tin Le. The screenshot he used to spread the story was an altered Australian passport, reports Gizmondo.
Tin, who originally shared his story in January of allegedly being banned from Facebook several times because of his name which phonetically reads as "Fuck that bitch," admits it was just a prank.
To explain the joke that became viral in mid-November, Tin, who again made another wisecrack by signing it as Joe Carr which reads as "Joker," says his intention was to expose Facebook's flaws in its user name policy.
He points out that the website will always have prankster and tricksters, saying his "prank that made a fool out of media and brought out the best in people who reached out to me." Tin notes that while the incident did not result in anger and darkness often happening on the internet, "it brought out a levity and humanity in a time we need it most."
He adds that the episode taught him not to trust media's credibility because "hungry journalists ... mask the truth." Tin takes pride in that an average person like himself could fool the biggest news sources with ease.
A fake Phuc Dat Bich account is now being used by another person, apparently a Filipino prankster, because he also used a Filipino vulgar term for the female genital in his profile.