Hi, everyone !
Today I want to share a story with you, about the day
when my best friends’ pictures got stolen by a fake profile, claiming to be
him.
One day a friend of mine got bored to death and
decided to register in a dating site to socialize with some new chat buddies.
Little did he know, his pictures were already on that website with another
username and profile. So he registered, uploaded some of his pictures and
started chatting with some new people. Because he was just looking for people
to talk to, the profiles which were shown to him were both girls and boys.
The first day went fine as he already met some new
friends and started a lot of conversations. The next few days things were
quiet, until one of his new friends wrote to him asking “Hey, dude, why do you
have two profiles here? “. My friend thought it was a joke and replied that it
was not funny. Then he got another message with a link leading to someone’s
profile.
When Peter (not the real name of my friend but let’s
call him that) opened the link in a new tab in the browser he couldn’t believe
his eyes. Almost all of his freshly uploaded pictures were in this fake
profile. The bio part of the profile was like some science fiction story and
the description said he wants to hookup fast ! The name was the same as his
real one and even the location. This came as a big shock to Peter as he could
not comprehend someone stealing his pictures only a few days after his
registration. The “funny” part was when he wrote a message to that profile and
the person behind it claimed that he was the imposter. (could be just a troll
or something more serious, you never know)
On the same day he contacted the website administrators’
office and told them his story. Then they had a skype video – chat to verify if
it’s truly him and they took down the fake profile. They never replied to our
question “Did you ban his IP address? “ I guess all they care about is mainly
the traffic of their website.
Next time I will tell you how to find out if your
pictures are being used somewhere over the ocean called internet !
