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== [[Real Life]] ==
* A common tactic of [[419 Scam|419]] baiters. They usually do this for these reasons:
* As shown in the documentary film ''Kanehsetake: 270 Years of Resistance'', one of the protesters at the Oka Crisis used the alias "[[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]]". Naming yourself after a child-killer is probably not the best way to get the public on your side...
* The 2010 Orwell Prize for best political blog was ironically awarded to an anonymous blogger calling himself [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Winston Smith]].
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