FabSwingers.com forum: Is it a reportable offence.....

By *obleton OP Man
over a year ago

By the beach

for someone to plagiarise all or part of my profile and pass it off as their own?

should I report them or just have a quiet word?

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

immitation is the sincerest form of flattery!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't suppose there is anything you can do about it unless they are actively pretending to be you, with photos and details of you on their profile.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If it was us i would email them just so they knew we knew they had copied our profile.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had a single bloke from Ireland pinch a picture and had it as his profile pic!

We sent him a message and he said some crap about it just appeared when he uploaded some pics.

Reported him and profile has disappeared.

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By *obleton OP Man
over a year ago

By the beach

I just mailed him to compliment him on his profile and ask him if he thought it up all by himself lol!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

dont think there's much you can do, it's just words after all, if it was you're pictures or something you owned then thats a whole different story.

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over a year ago

I would have asked him for a meet as he sounds lush

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By *heekychezzaWoman
over a year ago

warrington

Some has used a part of my profile...I found it quite amusing really....and to some extent flattering that a thirty-something needs to use the words of a fifty year old to attract would be meets

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By *b430Man
over a year ago

Tayside

for someone to plagiarise all or part of my profile and pass it off as their own?

should I report them or just have a quiet word?"

I would hope though that they have noticed that a person can only be made up of 100% of different things and not 105%

and amended the copied profile heading accordingly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It happened to me when I first joined, and the other person joined the site on my recommendation.

I flipped when I found out, and confronted him about it, and declined to meet or further communicate with him afterwards.

He had the blooming cheek to reply in the line of, "It must be something to do with my profile."

Git!!!

With hindsight, I should have reported him.

If someone tries to pass herself off as me, I shall report her for certain!

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By *obleton OP Man
over a year ago

By the beach

I would hope though that they have noticed that a person can only be made up of 100% of different things and not 105%

and amended the copied profile heading accordingly

well spotted!!

- so few people spot the deliberate maths error - in fact I even had someone message me to ask why it only added up to 95% once lol!

You are spookily accurate tho - it was that bit he nicked - and he didnt spot the error initially - altho after I messaged him to let him know he'd been busted he changed it to add up to 100% so I'm still at least 5% better then him even with the plagiarism

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i nicked all the words on my profile from a Janet & John book

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Had the same issue myself before, was told I couldn't do anything about it. So I just changed my profile...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It must be a good profile; you should be flattered.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had something similar at another site, a guy we got chatting to and were keen to meet, so asked if we could chat on msn and maybe webcam to illustrate we were all genuine. He said he didn't have a cam, but was happy to show display pics on there, imagine my surprise when the face pic he put up was of my delightful husband! Oops!

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