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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 by s73ver »

anonbtcms wrote: post #28
s73ver wrote: post #3

The author is far more charitable in his characterization of the scammer than I would be. No one "accidentally" copies someone's website, and no one "accidentally" scams someone. And a person who does that is not a good person.

anonymousbtcsms here. This is not a scam website. As I stated in my previous comment, we are having issues with our integrations with Coinbase. Because I have been out of the USA, they refuse to service my support tickets. I am in the process of moving over to Bitpay, but I have not had the bandwidth recently to tackle that project so I have manually been entering in payments as I see them. As a result, the payments…

You copied someone else's site. That doesn't happen by accident.

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

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Post by SippinLean »

anonbtcms wrote: post #25

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…

Cool, why did you rip off OP's creation?

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

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Post by anonbtcms »

SippinLean wrote: post #52
anonbtcms wrote: post #25

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…

Cool, why did you rip off OP's creation?

I found inspiration in his project, but he is definitely not the first to market for this idea[0].

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=761900.0

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

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Post by ge96 »

I am concerned when considering developing a simple client-application to do it server side or client side. If it's javascript someone could just copy your source code. I don't use any libraries/frameworks right now so it would just be pure javascript/no dependency.

I am thinking of building something and if I did it client side I could avoid potential attacks if I'm not mistaken as no server-side storage/execution is involved. But that concern of literally right-click save page and reupload...

The tool is a put-something-in get something out sort of deal and can be done entirely client side with JS.

Also doesn't seem like it's anything "amazing" or "revolutionary" I just wonder if it's so easy to steal... ehhh cross that road when you get to it.

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

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Post by tomcam »

anonbtcms wrote: post #53
SippinLean wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool, why did you rip off OP's creation?

I found inspiration in his project, but he is definitely not the first to market for this idea[0]. [0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=761900.0

It is not the ideal we are concerned about. It is the blatant a copyright violations

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

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Post by optimiz3 »

isubkhankulov wrote: post #47
dsfyu404ed wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Papers please. If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.

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

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Post by meshr »

peteboyd wrote: post #41
slivanes wrote: 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).

It's a powerful tool if you are a law firm and your work is not very valuable, otherwise you will receive fake counter-notification from scammer and Google will ask you for court order.

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

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Post by meshr »

siliconc0w wrote: post #17

Whois their IP and grab their Host/ISP. Contact their abuse address describing the IP theft. ISPs need to have well defined processes to deal with these complaints or they risk damaging their upstream relationships.

It doesn't work for real valuable IP because we don't have Internet court and even in obvious cases only real court can tell who is 'IP theft'. So creators have to spend a lot of time/money to prove obvious things while the scammer can change providers easily to DMCA resistant one.

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

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Post by meshr »

dvt wrote: post #30

A few years ago, this happened to me as well. I filed a DMCA complaint with their hosting company and in a few days, the offending website was down.

You are lucky. In my case I received fake DMCA counter-notification from scammer and Google/FB asked me to go to court.
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