DECEPTION CASE: @omonteleone mass Photo Art Fraud on Steem and Hive!
Hello my dear Steemians and Art Fans,
Another case that we wanted to present today is @omonteleone, it is very upsetting and making me very angry. The reason is, we found this, actually, professional Photographer under user name @omonteleone, from Venezuala last year and supported him for a while.
He became well known to our community and then moved to #italy and there was supported by @sardrt and @girolamomarotta and was supported there too for the beautiful photography but I believe we all trusted that he is a professional photographer and have not checked it anymore, he was in so called “White List”
But, that is a story of greed and will to get easy money or Steem.
When searching for posts for curation and checking cross post in Hive, we noticed that this user @omonteleone is already on Blacklist by @Hivewatcher
If you look into his page on Hive he has many more photographs there that he stolen and got rewards from Curation trials, that is a greed of getting more and more with using way of stealing and hoping that he will not be seen.
I am not a fan of @jaguar.force but I really like his comment and fully support it:
Now back to Steem, after we noticed that post and the confession of @omonteleone we decided just wait and see what he will do. Of course he can‘t go back to Hive and he is back to Steem.
Just due to our curiosity we checked his posts, he is now posting in #Italy community and it was not a long search and here we are with the Liar and Theft have caught him who was swearing on Bible (that are his own words in in his post in Hive)
“I enclose my photographic project which pays homage to one of the greatest Italians of contemporary painting, Giorgio de Chirico. During this month of January and February we will continue to see other Italian masters of painting who have meant a lot to me.”
Look at the stolen work, he flipped it from right to left and cropped the edges
There he writes:
- “Even though I can't go out, I like to see and think that the photo shoots of many of my commercial projects have achieved their goals. I can only wait for the phone to ring again and for the manufacturer to tell me that the pandemic is already under control, that we have to get back to work, and that the team prepares tickets for a new project, for a new destination. in the Caribbean, it would be the greatest happiness.”
Here is the Instagram of the Model Zia Suarez and also the website with the pictures that you can buy, that means pay money and not like @omonteleone just stolen to make money with her photogrpahs.
I actually have suspicion now that there are many more stolen Photographs by that user who is calling himself @omonteleone but who has stolen Identity of the real person and real Photographer ORLANDO MONTELEONE. Because everywhere where we search for Orlando Monteleone we can't find anything older than 2015. I have sent a message in Instagram but never received anything back. For us it is enough evidence, we are going to put him in our Blacklist and also I will update #Italy community about that.
I hope that the Steemit Team and @steemcurator01 will support our anti-abuse initiative and support it to show their solidarity. Anti-abuse initiative on Hive is well supported therefore, those users now are coming to Steem and if we get no support to fight:
- Plagiarism
- Mass Photo And Art Fraud
- Scamming
- Any other abuse on Steem platform then we will be drowning and overflow of such abuse
Vielen Dank für euren unermüdlichen Einsatz!
So traurig es klingt: Es macht sogar Spaß, von der Detektivarbeit zu lesen. Weil so einfach garantiert ist, dass ein User nicht grundlos auf Blacklists landet. Ich kann mir vorstellen, wie viel Arbeit solch eine Recherche bereitet. Arbeit und Zeit. Zeit, die ehrlichen Usern, die eine ordentliche Kuration verdient haben, verloren geht...
Vielleicht sollte die Steemit.Inc für diese Detektiv-Aufgabe jemanden einstellen... ;-)
Du hast recht, das wir nie genug davon ( Zeit ) haben. Gerade jetzt wenn ich Urlaub habe, geht die meiste Zeit des Tages für Steem drauf, ein kurzer Spaziergang und natürlich meine Lieblingsbeschäftigung kochen.
Da ich mich jetzt noch für eine Kurator Rolle auf freiwillige Basis angemeldet habe, ist meine freie Zeit komplett weg. Natürlich wäre es gut einen „Cleaner“ auf Steem zu haben, das würde vielen das Leben erleichtern. So lange das nicht so ist müssen wir einfach weiter machen.
LG,
Karly
Ihr seid wenigstens zu zweit aktiv. Täte ich dir gleich, hinge der Haussegen in deutlicher Schieflage... ;-)
LG Chriddi
Thanks for finding this @stef1.
He seems to be powering down now...
Hi @steemcurator01, today we have issued an @art-venture showcase post with the Professional Artist who is exclusively on Steem and posting on Steemit platform, Jorge Van de Perre, Chilean-Belgian Artist, who currently settled in Spain. I have communicated with him via email, recently due to Covid all the planned exhibitions been cancelled last year and he is trying to blog using Steem. He is not on Hive.
As it was in the past we have produced an Artist Showcase adn all the SBD from the post will be sent to Artist to support them in this hard time. I would be grateful if you could support our intention and give upvote to this post, please:
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@art-venture/art-venture-artist-showcase-jorgevandeperre-the-sbd-payout-of-post-will-go-to-the-artist
Thank you for Downvoting him. I think he feels that this is now the end of least of this user account. But such people simply coming back with another account and names.
May I ask you another favour to give support to this user, who is also posting exclusively on Steem. This post is really very emotional due to loss of a friend. Thank you in advance,
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@whitelightxpress/grief-and-healing-too-much-death
We soon need something like Steemcleaners
Exactly I think we should require a bot like cheetah who can found similar content on internet. It can also help the platform to check who is stealing and who is cross posting😊
Even if we add some new rules where the bot check spamming links and count words of the post something like less than 100 words etc is the best way to save the platform from spammers.
Hi @steemcurator01, would you please give support to this use @ricpicks, he is professional photographer with beautiful website of maritime photography
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@ricpicks/my-view-on-a-city-called-dresden-2
Website: https://ricpicks.de/
Unfortunately, we do not have much Steem Power and my upvote power is 62% that is only $0,18.
Thank oyu in advance, @stef
I'm really disappointed...I supported this user a lot by believing in his honesty and instead he turned out to be an imposter.
I didn't know the previous issues on Hive...anyway thank you very much for your work.
Seeing such cases, more people should get cautious. We never know who are the people around us. Agree with you, very disappointing!
Hello.
Good work on exposing this kind of stuff.
While ago read post about exposing someone else and it was nice to see some work done in this field.
Did not follow any previous cases but postive thing for sure.
Maybe there is some list that i am not aware of (of people that "borrow" stuff around) since i have been away some time.
My vote does not worth that much but just voting means that you support someone and i try to vote for things that are interesting to me and some posts seems too good to be true so you just skip them ( if you are not familiar with author).
Having someone doing this kind of stuff this long and having reputation of trustworthy author implies that more checking verifying has to bee done.
Even if it would take one week to check one suspicious person at least this kind of job would be done continuosly and it would be easier by time. Form a team to fight for good side.
How much photo does it take to take one perfect photo? Behind scenes photos can be enough proof in some cases.
Just thoughts thrown around - it may not make sense,skip
Keep up good work.
Hi @sammy00 thank you for your nice comment and really appreciate your opinion. Important thing is that you sharing our view and supporting it. No matter how strong SP on the users, but we all have to be on one side against abuse and plagiarism.
There is much work behind of such investigation and take sometimes weeks.
I noticed that you were away for some time, are you going to post again?
Nice to hear that.
I plan on sticking around of course.
Thanks for the tip. Really a strange case.
Absolutely agree with you, we did not want to believe until the last moment. But we never will experience the truth.
Hello @stef1… I have chosen your post about “-DECEPTION CASE: @omonteleone mass Photo Art Fraud on Steem and Hive! -” for my daily initiative to re-set - vote and comment… ((((Great Job))))
Let's keep working and supporting each other to grow in Steemit.
Thank you, it would be great so that more people can see it :)
Hola amigo @stef1 ,te felicito por ese gran trabajo.
Yo me ciento apenada y me da tristeza ya que soy venezolana, por lo que hizo este señor de ganar dinero, fama con el talento de otro.
Hi @hildegartte, I think such thief maybe even not coming from the country that they claim to be from. They may hide themselves behind that but we will never know it. Those people are just thieves and people without respect to property of others.
Exelente investigación, no dejes de hacerlo, esas personas le hacen daño a la plataforma. 👍🏻
Thank you for your support and opinion :)
Great Work - i am off to drop a couple of flags on this thief :)
Thank you, it is great to show the united action against such people :)
Well done on exposing theft of art work @stef1 I agree with you. Art and photography are like our own children, that have been nurtured, with a whole lot of time and love, spent on each work.
Labour of Love, so the saying goes.
Keep up the good work.
Hi Diana, thank you for your feedback. It is sad to find such cases and to discover such people. I can't imagine how the original creator would be feeling if he sees his works claimed to be done by someone else.
We will keep being attentive :)
Well done 😊@stef1