They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but...

[JoyfulC 132299]

Having recently installed an SSL certificate on my site, I was plodding along, following the directions for cleaning up the last few details, including making a visit to Google's Webmaster Tools to verify my site as my property.

 

While there, I noticed that my old URL, joyful-spirit.net, is still listed for me. I was about to delete it, having changed over to joyfulc.com a few years ago, when I noticed that it appeared to now be the site for another adult entertainer. I clicked through to check it out. It was!

 

Imagine my surprise to find that this SP is also "Christine" (although only 28, in England, and much more beautiful).

 

I began to read and the text sounded familiar. A little too familiar. Most of it was lifted right off my old site. I explored a bit, and even weirder, while most of the plagiarized text came off my site, there was some on the one page that had to have come from my posts and responses on various boards over the years.

 

What the hell?!

 

I doubt a 28 year old escort, a third of the way around the world is responsible for this. Maybe her site designer? I'm a bit creeped out by it. On the one hand, I'm not using any of that anymore, and I did well by it, so I can only wish her the best with it too.

 

But it's really got me wondering. I realize I should probably do nothing (other than vent here, which I'm doing), and nothing is probably what I will do. But what else would you do, under the circumstances??

[NotchJohnson 214123]

I always said that there are those who do and other that will take advantage of that to make a living.

I used to work for a company part-time and when they would have a problem in the manufacturing department they would ask employees for their input. I would talk to the full time guys and I always had great ideas but since I was not a full time employee I could not be involved with management. Nonetheless I felt it was my duty to help solve problems so I shared those ideas and many times they used them but it was the other employee that got the credit for it and eventually moved up the ladder.

My motto was and is still "if you are not part of the solution then you may be part of the problem".

I may be off from the subject here Christine but I can relate to what has happened to you.

[fortunateone 156618]

there was a guy out here doing similar things, big board presence, & part of the website design, advertising, booking packages was he'd also managed to get a mod to get him several low post old join date accounts for him to use to 'bump' and post reviews on his clients.

 

every single one of his sites and all of the ads were stolen from European escorts, except for one Indian escort.

 

i've had a brunette steal my ad, and blame her husband for posting on her behalf when she couldn't do it. i had to ask why wouldn't he just copy and paste her own ad rather than taking mine and having to change the stats. Had this other one out in the Fraser Valley constantly stealing just my ad titles, to the extent i kept clicking on her ads when checking mine because i couldn't tell the difference, then the most blatant was the stats, location and description of an asian provider in my stolen ad copy, and almost forgot the one in the 3 story walkup older building who didn't notice that my ad says 'condo' and she was definitely not in one, causing confusion for the guys expecting a newer place, but not getting one.

 

 

if someone is motivated, they can do a formal cease and desist lawyerly type letter to stop people from stealing. i can't see myself calling anyone about this, as sometimes you will reach the threatening guy mentioned above, and at best you get someone pretending or genuinely cluelessness about what had happened, either way not productive, and one actually dangerous.

[Jasmine Rain 23126]

I had a webmaster take my material for another escort right here in TO. She was horrified when I informed her. She had no idea.

 

I think that would be the same thing here.