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Toronto radio hosts victims of long-term identity theft


TORONTO – With all of the personal details radio hosts often divulge about their own lives, long-time listeners feel like they know them. Like they're friends. That level of intimacy can apparently have a dark side, as CFRB Morning Man Bill Carroll and evening host Jim Richards found out about recently. The two have fallen prey to a Toronto man who has been impersonating them on Internet chat rooms and other cyber-locations for the past three to four years. The identity theft came to light Tuesday night on the Jim Richards Show when the man confessed on air to communicating...