“Sally Jade Jones”, “Caoimhin B Morcant” and “Charles Gray” are fake Facebook accounts being used by a far-left activist to acquire data on thousands of political opponents in Aotearoa

A few months ago I founded a Facebook group called NZ Against Hamas to organise Kiwis who are interested in pro-Jewish advocacy and counterprotests against the anti-Israel movement in this country. (Incidentally, if anyone wishes to join the link is here: facebook.com/groups/nzah.private) A month or two ago one of the members of the group (“Caoimhin B Morcant”) contacted me saying that he was part of a private group of individuals who compile dossiers of information on members of the far left. When I enquired as to why this was he said it was to keep Aotearoa safe from such people. He asked me to provide him with the name of someone I have seen at the street protests. I said I didn’t know.

A few weeks later another account (“Charles Gray”) contacted me referring to this conversation and asking me if I had discovered the name of the person in question yet. I was confused because I had never had a conversation with this individual about the matters in question. He made some bs excuse which I didn’t give too much thought to at the time. It was not until later that I realised that it was the same person messaging me from different accounts, and that he had messaged me from the wrong one on the second occasion.

It became obvious recently that our page had been infiltrated by spy accounts, and so I finally sat down to sort out the problem by systematically working through our membership list. Eventually I found an account which it became clear was a fake account. I Googled this person’s name and found that it was the known alias of a particularly militant and rather nasty far-left activist whom I had met at the anti-Israel protests in Auckland. The website which identified the alias provided the name of a second alias which it said was controlled by the same person. I ran the name through our membership list and it was one of the accounts that had messaged me asking me for information about a protester and who had said that he was compiling dossiers of information on political opponents.

According to the website containing the two aliases the individual in question has dozens of very sophisticated fake social media accounts with thousands of friends, and the person who controls these accounts has boasted publicly about building a database of information on members of the political right.

It was then that I joined the dots and realised that Caoimhin B Morcant and Charles Gray were one and the same person, and that he is spying not on the far left but on people he deems to be rightwing (which seems to include me, even though I am a queer, pro-indigenous Labour Party voter). I checked the posts made by these accounts on our Facebook page and they were consistently requesting information valuable to the other side, for example about my lawsuit against the Police or about a private pro-Israel social media page run by someone who joined our page. That is consistent with building a database on the owner’s political opponents.

The public need to know that these three Facebook accounts are fake accounts controlled by a far-left activist for the express purpose of harvesting your data:

Sally Jade Jones: https://www.facebook.com/jadejonesnz This account has over 4000 friends.

Caoimhin B Morcant/ Kevin Morgan: https://www.facebook.com/kevin.morgan.92754397 This account has nearly 2000 friends.

Charles Gray: https://www.facebook.com/gray.charles333/ This account has 800 friends.

If you have a Facebook account, I suggest unfriending these accounts immediately, or warning any mutual friends who are on his friend lists. A number of people have commented to me that they had overlooked adding these accounts, so I suggest checking to make sure.

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