I understand the saying, "desperate times call for desperate measures," but even that has its limits. I have to give a huge kudos to @livinguktaiwan, who alerted me to someone posing as me on Steemit.
I've never been on Steemit. I joined Hive long after the fork. I have no desire to post anywhere than here. Someone took it upon themselves to steal images from my posts and the posts themselves, pretend to be me and take credit for them.
In an odd way, I suppose I should be flattered they found my content worthy of stealing, but it still annoys me that they did it. Fortunately, I've been in contact with people who are on Steemit and will keep an eye out for any additional plagiarism attempts and downvote them. I'm also submitting DMCA notices to Steemit so they'll block the content.
Don't you just love people with too much free time and little to no morals?
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I still have my Steem account, it's been idle since... I should check if it grew a life of it's own.
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Hopefully it's still idle and hasn't been hacked or anything. 🙂
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Kudos to @palomap3 for discovering this, I just helped to verify it. She also discovered three other accounts at the same time. One already had a shitxteem account so they tagged 1 to the end of the imposter account. I suspect there are more.
I sent them DMCA takedown notices and let some people know who can make sure further posts are zeroed out.
Thank you, and thank you @palomap3!
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I hope the impersonator doesn't get more money stealing others work. 🙏
I only detect the suspicious stuff but your experience was needed to find the right solution to the situation. ☺️
Keep it up, no one should be stealing your intellectual property!
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My Steemit account sits idle.. STEEM sold years ago.. keys long since forgotten..
Yeah, a lot of people jumped ship from what I've heard. I'm not sure why someone would want to go there at this point.
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