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Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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post #7

Very charitable of you to assume that it's just a mistake. Not wrong necessarily, but very charitable.

If you want an airtight defense against libel, it's probably the right position to assume.

Good point. Plus the author is in the UK, which has much tougher libel laws.

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

#13
post #7

Very charitable of you to assume that it's just a mistake. Not wrong necessarily, but very charitable.

If you want an airtight defense against libel, it's probably the right position to assume.

If you were really worried about the legal aspects you probably wouldn't include the phrase "...and is using it to scam people" in your title.

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

#14
post #9

reach out to him here:

Let's not doxx people here. How certain are you that it's the same person? How certain are you that the scammer isn't just picking a random scapegoat, and registering a domain in their name?

good point. redacted

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

#15
post #9

reach out to him here:

Let's not doxx people here. How certain are you that it's the same person? How certain are you that the scammer isn't just picking a random scapegoat, and registering a domain in their name?

I agree about not doxxing, but the article points out that there is a link from this person's personal website to the "scam" site. So it's not just someone who's name was randomly used to register the domain.

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

#19

ironically, both websites serve predominantly scammers who need SMS to verify with various websites to commit fraud.

Not everyone wants to provide six forms of identification and the finger prints of their first born to register for a website.

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

#20

His site says "Anonymously send and receive SMS messages with bitcoin. Built during Hacker Paradise South America 2017" Possibly just a hackathon project that was never meant to have full functionality

I have access to Hacker Paradise Slack group, let me try to reach him there.

Edit: contacted both him (though he was offline) and the group asking for more info

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