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A general view of the entrance to the "Dotcom Mansion" of the founder of the portal Megaupload, Kim Schmitz. / WireImage

Sidney (Australia), 1 Aug (EFE).-the founder of the portal Megaupload, Kim Schmitz or Dotcom, accused of piracy by the authorities of United States, wants to Twitter and Facebook to verify their identity to avoid imitators.

The portal of short message Twitter refuses to confirm your account "@ kimdotcom", with which shares the news of his judicial Odyssey, while Facebook does not accept "Dotcom" as his surname, according to several news websites reported today.

Dotcom, resident in New Zealand, wants to Twitter to verify your account to avoid confusion with other users "impostors" as @ kim_dotcom, which achieved some 10,000 followers, according to the "Slashdot" site.

Twitter ended up canceling the account of the "imposter", which did not come to more than 114,000 followers of @ kimdotcom.

The computer genius has posted on the implementation of photo Istagram a photo of yourself with a message that says "Twitter: I really am" that those responsible for the short message page confirming your account to deter future imitators.

The problem is that it does not support as evidence a driving licence issued in Hong Kong containing the surname Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload adopted in 2005.

For its part, Facebook does not accept "Dotcom" as the surname Kim, who in recent years has changed name several times and has two passports with different identities.

Schmitz, also known as Jim Vestor Kim, or Kim Dotcom, Kimble was born 38 years ago in Germany of Finnish mother and, after a brilliant career as a computer scientist, was installed in 2010 in New Zealand from where he was heading the Megaupload website.

Their fate has been truncated last January, when the police searched his house and closed your portal downloads at the request of American justice, which accuses him of hacking, organized crime and money-laundering.

The trial for the extradition of the founder of Megaupload to United States will begin in March 2013.