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    Default What a moron! Some guy stole my photo for his personals ad.

    Last week, a lady friend emailed me that someone was passing themselves off as me on an online dating service. She sent me a screenshot of his ad and sure enough the photo that I posted here (http://www.stripperweb.com/gallery/members/Scott) was posted there as his. I contacted the online dating service and after a few email exchanges proving that the photograph was of me (I eventually ended up sending them a digital photograph of me holding a sign that said "Hi [name of dating service], I'm the real deal."), they today not only removed my photograph from the guy's ad but banned him from the service, sent warning emails to all the women that had sent him email through their service, and sent emails to everyone that he sent emails to through their service. Nice people. They apologized very nicely and I don't want to give them a bad name so I won't mention their name. However...

    What was this guy thinking?! Didn't he think that the women might possibly ... just possibly realize that he's not me when they met him? And this wasn't a free online dating service either. It was one of those expensive ones. An expensive one that also told him that they won't be refunding his money due to his trickery. What a moron!

    And to add insult to injury, he gave his age as 23. Ugh. I'm 40 and proud of it. I'd like to think I look my age too. I'm just assuming he's as clueless about guessing ages as he is about everything else.

    Anyone else have this done to them?
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    Default Re:What a moron! Some guy stole my photo for his personals ad.

    Wow PP, that sucks. I would be so damn annoyed if someone did that. Actually though, I had someone at my club ask me about my face being in a website he saw. I told him I have never been on any websites and he says he could have sworn he saw me on one. If I find out, indeed, that someone used my pic, there would be big problems.
    Just think someone was using Sapphires pic in THEIR avatar, ON THIS SITE. LOL
    Too crazy!

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    Default Re:What a moron! Some guy stole my photo for his personals ad.

    Yeah, hope no one uses my ass avatars as their own he he



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    Default Re:What a moron! Some guy stole my photo for his personals ad.

    Lexi,

    My lady friend was advocating me to sue this person for impersonating me. Or at least that I should send him a real nasty email. I didn't do either. What's the point in doing that? The only ones that would profit from doing the first one would be the lawyers. As for the second one, I'm not really upset. Just thought it was weird and that the guy's a moron. More along the lines of ... ??? ... than ... .

    Oh, and the only place where I can think he got my photograph was from here as I don't recall posting it to any other location on the net. Hmmm. Possibly he's reading this thread even. If so...

    Nice try, whoever you are, but no cigar. And this is all the buzz amongst my lady friends right now who have told me they'll see if anyone else has stolen my photo in other online dating services. Which means you have angered the Amazon Army, dude! Run for your life! *laugh* Seriously, if the thief is reading this, please don't do it again.
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    omg...pumkin pie ...what a moron ..why on earth would he use someone elses photo ....i guess he must really be ugly or something ....thats awful what the heck was he thinking??
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    Default Re:What a moron! Some guy stole my photo for his personals ad.

    This happens ALOT, and it's mainly because accounts created at dating services and other online services aren't always there for the service itself- but to instead gather email addresses to be sold for select marketeers.

    Likely, the account using your profile picture was actually a front for collecting emails of women to target single/lonely women products for email address purchasers.

    Companies looking for active, verified, and focused email pools will pay top dollar for collections of said email addresses. I'm betting the account using your profile pic was one such outfit, and likely has several other false accounts on the same site.
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    Default Re:What a moron! Some guy stole my photo for his personals ad.

    wow...scary....I know that on one site I was a member of, they didn't "steal" my pic but certainly used it to keep business without my knowledge. I didn't want to stay on the site and requested to have my profile erased. I didn't go back for several months but then I created a new profile on the same site. During a search, I found my old profile, picture and all still up and active even though when I tried to log in, it said it had been turned off. Interesting right? I bet it's just cuz they wanted as many profiles as possible (especially with pics) to attract people to their site. I was really pretty pissed--there was a REASON I wanted it gone--what if a family member had seen it--weird!!! The whole situation makes me nervous now. I like knowing that people know what I look like, it helps when you're able to put a face to the people you're talking to, but when people exploit it, it's really scary. I'm so nervous to post pics now and that's sad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by polecat link=board=1;threadid=7246;start=msg82390#msg82390 date=1078791011
    This happens ALOT, and it's mainly because accounts created at dating services and other online services aren't always there for the service itself- but to instead gather email addresses to be sold for select marketeers.

    Likely, the account using your profile picture was actually a front for collecting emails of women to target single/lonely women products for email address purchasers.

    Companies looking for active, verified, and focused email pools will pay top dollar for collections of said email addresses. I'm betting the account using your profile pic was one such outfit, and likely has several other false accounts on the same site.
    Thanks, PC. I'll forward this information onto the online dating service.
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    I actually had someone steal my pic off aohell and try to pose as me funny thing is this person was a guy!!! Now last time I looked in the mirror( after pushing Blade out of the way lol)... I might not look like Barbie but i definately don't look like Ken!!!! I have also had a girl at a club once actually pose as me even though my pic was posted right in the foyer with my name!!! People are so funny.... NOT!


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    I am glad no one wants to steal my glasses. Carlos is worried about people coveting his ass and Pumpkin Pie is worried about people stealing his PP.

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    Default Re:What a moron! Some guy stole my photo for his personals ad.

    How weird! I think I'll stick with my ugly duckling avatar - heehee.
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    Sorry to hear that PP.

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    Default Re:What a moron! Some guy stole my photo for his personals ad.

    The online dating service just got back to me after I forwarded them PC's information (posted earlier in this thread) to them yesterday. Apparently they keep records of all emails sent within the last ninety days through their service. They assure me that they only look at them when problems like this arise and it is clearly spelled out in BOLD type in the user contract people must agree to for them to use their service. "Besides," they said, "everyday thousands of emails are sent through us so even if we wanted to read them all, we just won't have the time to."

    Before they got PC's information I forwarded to them, they said they were also wondering if it was an email address harvester ... but it sadly wasn't. As part of the first reply the guy sent to women that contacted him was always an off-hand comment that the photograph in his personals ad was "a bit out of date". When he got close to meeting them in person, he then sent them a photograph he "just took today".

    Looking at the "just took today" photograph he sent women, the online dating service said that amazingly the two of us are identical twins. Well, nearly identical. The service said there were some minor differences between us. For example, they said he was bald on top ... whereas I am of a mesomorph body type (upside-down cone shape), he was endomorph (ball shape) ... my hair is reddish blonde, what's left of his is more of a white ... I was obviously tall, he was medium height ... and, in their words, I was "handsome", he was "plain and mouse-like". So outside of those minor differences, I guess we were separated at birth. Tomorrow I'm driving home to confront my mother about this dark family secret.

    Fortunately, the service reported that all the women that he corresponded with to this point (him sending them his "just took today" photograph) broke off all future correspondence with him. That's odd. ??? I wonder why?

    However, in a weird sort of way, the guy wasn't completely without any active brain cells. The online dating service said that his personals ad has been one of the top receivers of emails from female subscribers. But this still doesn't make him anything but a stupid moron.
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    I read this story and just scratched my head. Why would this guy do that ?

    I have a personal ad on Match.com with a photo . About 137 women have looked at my ad , but no one has responded to it ,

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    Well PP, take a lesson. Exercise and minoxodil (if you ever need it) and you will keep attracting the ladies. Go to pot and you are only scr*wed one way.

    On a different chat site a long time ago a woman tried to pass herself off as a playboy bunny--complete with the copyright notice in the lower right hand corner of her "home photo". Some people are just stupid. Nominate this joker for a Darwin award.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uticaguy link=board=1;threadid=7246;start=msg82744#msg82744 date=1078882292
    I read this story and just scratched my head. Why would this guy do that ?
    Because he's a moron.

    I have a personal ad on Match.com with a photo . About 137 women have looked at my ad , but no one has responded to it ,
    Don't sweat it. It's just superficial evaluations anyway. Go out. Mingle. Be nice. You'll have no problem attracting women. It is really just that simple.
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    awww....Utica guy, I'll respond! In fact, I live near Utica! Hehehe. I just went and signed up for match.com so I can find your profile....harder than I thought though...lots of them to sort through....what's your screen name?
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    Awwww, c'mon Pumpkin Pie. You know it was you and your cover just got blown!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire link=board=1;threadid=7246;start=msg83105#msg83105 date=1078969842
    Awwww, c'mon Pumpkin Pie. You know it was you and your cover just got blown!
    If only. *sigh*

    And to make this more twisted, a crazy lady friend of mine thought this guy had the right idea but for the wrong person so she has put up a personals ad for me on another dating service THEN told me about it. She woke me up this morning and informed me what she had done yesterday. I check my email and there was already women replying. I called her back, told her of the replies, said again that I wish she hadn't done it, and all I got back was laughter from the phone. When I said I would delete it, she called in a big favor I owed her and I'm now obligated to leave it up for a week. She has since told all my friends of the ad and now along with serious replies from women I do not know, I'm getting humorous replies from the ones I do know. Ugh. At times I feel like my entire life is just for the amusement of my friends.
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    SCGirl my match id is DMVGUY . I need to tell you though I will turn 39 on April 6 and I have 2 young nieces that I watched grow up who are 2 and 5 years older than you.

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