RE: #club5050 Little Creatures Brewery
Thank you ever so much @steemcurator01 for pointing this out to me but the account on Hive is a fake. I have NOT signed up there and I have NO intention of doing so. I contribute only to the Steemit platform and I currently post in the WORLD OF XPILAR community only where I have been treated like a Queen and I have been consistently supported by @worldofxpilar and @xpilar.
This unfortunately is just another identity theft which reminds me of @quentindeschamps So I do thank @stef1 who wrote a detailed post then and I now know what the best way forward is. If there is anything else you can do in the meantime to help me deal with this quicker, please do and it will be greatly appreciated. I will fill in the Hive abuse report form and hopefully it will not take long for them to resolve it.
To be honest I even remember @o1eh suggesting that users like me who have no account on Hive create one so just the avatar name never gets stolen. But even this seemed unfair to me at the time. However now I am in a worse position with somebody just copying and pasting my content there. Shame on such people who will be better off creating their own content instead of wasting time stealing somebody else's.
So the @petface on Hive is not me! Please @apnigrich @playfulfoodie do not support this account and if there is anybody you know on Hive and can report this to, please be so kind to do so. This is a total imposer who doesn't even bother replying to a single comment as I can see and decided to start doing this a month ago. This is a crime and we need to stop it, prevent it from happening to other users too. Any tips on what else I can do @the-gorilla? I like your new avatar by the way.
I wish I could just carry on working on my next #steemexclusive post right now rather than having to deal with this. Anyway, I am certainly not giving up and I will carry on working hard here. I do hope that when I wake up tomorrow this identity theft issue will be already resolved. Cheers.
It looks like @stef1 has taken care of the HIVE problem 🙂
Neoxian appears to be an alternative front-end to HIVE so once HIVE is taken care of, that will be too.
I've created an account on Blurt for you so that your content won't appear there. I have the Keys saved and will send them over if you want them (just let me know how to send them over, I'll keep them safe until you ask).
Thanks 🙂
It does indeed. Her day must have started even earlier than ours! Bless her. Thanks a million @stef1 for reporting the fake petface account for me on Hive. It has still not been muted though but I hope that they would deal with this as soon as possible. I have also filled in the report abuse form and I messaged them on their Discord support channels too. So far @asgarth from PeakD's support have only asked me to reconfirm the whole thing which I did.
Thank you ever so much @the-gorilla for creating a Blurt account for me. I would like to have the keys please. Not that I intend to start blogging there for the time being but you never know. What would be the best way to send them over? Discord? Email? Skype? Twitter? Let me know please and I will send you my details. I feel like the pyjama girl on this year's Apprentice who was given the domains for her future online shop.
Imagine then as this became quite a popular scam now with the duplicate accounts on Hive, the next move of the scammers might be creating accounts like petfaceofficial for instance. But let's not give them ideas. I bet some even use a software that copies and pastes content so they don't have to do all this manually.
Hi, @petface. I didn't even know there was a similar account there.
One would think that at the beginning of January your account was split from Steem to Hive, but then you had not participated on Steem yet.
I'll know it's not you! But I'll take a look - what's going on there? And I'll warn everyone!
And after reading @steemcurator01 's comment on your post, I'm interested in checking again whether the account is operational or not. And it turned out to be true. He has taken photos in my post and even at the same time as my article. @nadiaturrina account on Hive is fake (not mine).
Dear @petface, I also realized after this incident that these people are also using my account. Just like your situation, this account was created 1 month ago. I didn't think this situation would even occur to me, it's really quite frustrating. I reached the community admin from discord and also wrote this situation to hiwatchers in discord. But even dealing with it is annoying.
I tagged you in this post, but if you haven't seen it, you can check out the steps I followed.
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@ozenozge/club100-my-steemit-account-was-copied-on-hiveblog-what-to-do-to-fix-the-problem