Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people by jstanley on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:11PM (#14571341)

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the update, I'm glad to hear your site is legit!

I can confirm the payment is now credited in my account, although it wasn't at the time I wrote the post.

Can you please remove the text you copied from my site?

EDIT: I've added an update at the top of the article.

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Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people by BoiledCabbage on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:02PM (#14574050)

To be clear, you had a problem and didn't get a response from customer service within 3hrs so concluded the entire website was a scam?

To me that sounds even more reckless than anything that site did.

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Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people by franciscop on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:30PM (#14571514)

Would love to hear a timeline as well, AFAIK in these kind of situations they are normally included. It's not as bad if someone doesn't reply in 24h as if someone doesn't reply in 1 month.

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Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people by jstanley on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:32PM (#14571537)

It was only about 3 hours, I just wrote up the post as soon as I was done with other work today.

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Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people by franciscop on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:38PM (#14571585)

"asking for the copied text to be removed, although I haven't received a reply and no longer expect to" => so you mean you lost all hope for an answer to your email within 3 hours? (;

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Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people by jstanley on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:40PM (#14571611)

Well after my payment didn't show up, I put 2 and 2 together and concluded (clearly incorrectly) that the site didn't actually work. :)

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Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people by anonbtcms on Friday June 16, 2017 @03:13PM (#14571852)

The timing of all of this is rather unfortunate, because I am currently on a boat on vacation with limited wifi. I have updated the copy of the website and will continue to make changes to it in the near future.

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Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people by brazzledazzle on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:31PM (#14573794)

Well to be fair, it doesn't actually work. He did say he does it manually.

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