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    Man ‘died’ in numerous terror attacks

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    July 5, 2016 at 18:51
    HE’S dead to them — and everyone else!

    The New York Post reports that a group of friends is taking bizarre revenge on a former pal they say owes them money — by sending his picture out to news outlets and claiming he died in several recent terror attacks and other tragedies.

    A photo of the unnamed man, who lives in Mexico, has so far been featured in news stories about victims of the Orlando shooting, the Istanbul airport bombing and the EgyptAir crash, France24 reported.

    A snap of his face pops up in a New York Times video about the Orlando shooting, a BBC article, and several social media threads about terror victims, the site reported.

    “Help, my brother Alfonso was at Aturk Airport and we don’t know anything about him, please help #turkey,” @marty_batato tweeted, along with the man’s photo, after the bombing.

    But it’s all just part of a sick prank by former pals — who claim the dead man is a deadbeat, who scammed them out of dough, according to the site.

    “This man used to be my friend but he’s cheated money out of at least four people who I know. I lodged both civil and criminal complaints against him, but because the legal proceedings are dragging on and he still hasn’t given us back our money, we decided to punish him by posting his photo online,” one of the pranksters told the site.



    “Our goal is to ruin his reputation. We want the whole world to recognise his face,” he added.
    He and other aggrieved parties created fake social media posts because he swiped more than $1,000 from them, the prankster explained.

    The very alive, still-unnamed man is now furious people think he’s been killed, several times over.
    “My photo is everywhere because of someone who started it as a prank after a legal dispute,” he told the site.

    The man’s face also appears in connection with other tragic events, including a shooting Mexico City.

    He contacted the BBC and the New York Times and asked them to delete his photo — but they didn’t respond, he said.

    But he hasn’t taken legal action to remove his photo from news reports because in Mexico, “nothing ever happens in these kind of cases,” he said.

    This article originally appeared in The New York Post

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