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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

#41
post #6

Raising a DMCA notice to their hosting provider should be one of your first actions.

We just had a clients website copied (a law firm no less). We filed a DMCA notice and the site was down within a day. It's a very powerful tool if your work has been copied, so long as the infringing site is in the US (our owned by a US hosting company).

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

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"asking for the copied text to be removed, although I haven't received a reply and no longer expect to" => so you mean you lost all hope for an answer to your email within 3 hours? (;

Well after my payment didn't show up, I put 2 and 2 together and concluded (clearly incorrectly) that the site didn't actually work. :)

The timing of all of this is rather unfortunate, because I am currently on a boat on vacation with limited wifi. I have updated the copy of the website and will continue to make changes to it in the near future.

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

#45
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can see how scammers would abuse such a service but u should not be so quick to assume that that is his major customer base. There have been numerous occasions where I was required to do SMS verification for legit accounts, and I didn't want to expose my phone number.

This happens often enough for you to need a programmatic solution?

Is there any other type of solution?

If some service demands my mobile number, that is a clear signal that I should not give them my actual mobile number.

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

#46
post #36

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

Considering they mostly offer known VOIP numbers from twilio and likes and smsprivacy.org charges an UTTERLY INSANE $50 per day for physical numbers https://smsprivacy.org/buy-number/physical/GB I can't imagine them being too popular. Sites like https://smspva.com offer you real physical numbers associated with real physical sim cards for a couple of cents.

Russian and Ukraninan numbers from smspva.com would not be used for fraud. in fact, that would be a huge red flag.

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

#47

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.

yes, but using bitcoin provides a layer of anonymity only fraudsters need. legit users who would just use twilio or another service that is tied to their identity.

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

#48

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

Scammers don't need to use services like this to commit fraud. They'll just buy their own burner phones.

these scammers are usually located in 3rd world countries and they're pretending to be US/EU users.

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

#49

kevin at anonymousbtcsms.com: This is not a scam website. I am using Coinbase to process transactions and their platform has had a host of technical difficulties for non-usa based customers. I have been manually updating payments for the last several weeks, such that there maybe a few hours delay between when transactions have been confirmed and when they are tracked on the website. I noticed your payments several ho…

You still haven't addressed the fact you copied shit from his website verbatim, dude.

WebAssembly can't come soon enough.

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

#50
Here is Kevin's story: https://www.kcoleman.me/2017-05-2-case-study-start-a-saas.ht...

"For Anonymous BTC SMS, I found my inspiration from a uk based sms provider on Indie Hackers. I chose this idea, because I have made several SMS based apps and I knew I could test this idea out pretty quickly. The owner of that app also does a poor job of SEO and marketing online so I knew I could get in front of the right people."

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