It looks like @stef1 has taken care of the HIVE problem

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.