🚫ATTENTION STEEMIT COMMUNITY🚫 There Is Someone Plagiarzing Content Here🛑
If you are serious about Steemit, then you are aware that there are accounts who steal content from other people and pass it off as their own. Today, i found 1 of those people. Their username is @aburashed and they have plagiarized at least 2 pieces of content, in order to try and make a profit.
A user, Josie, has been doing a promotion where she gives free resteems to people who upvote her post. Her account is @average-joe. However, her post has been copied, word for word by @aburashed and posted on their page. Here are screenshots to prove it:
As you can see, this post was created by @aburashed, however, they stole it word for word from @average-joe, as shown by this screenshot:
THE WORDS, TITLE, RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME!!
This person tried to pass of their post as their own, when the really took it from @average-joe. The time stamp of the posts prove that @average-joe is the original owner of this content. In fact, Josie has been creating these posts for over a month if you go back to her first posts.
This type of thing irritates me because i was scrolling through my feed and saw a familiar title and thought it was Josie offering another resteem, but it was not. This is deceptive and wrong. Which is why i flagged this user and i encourage you all to do the same as well. There is no room for this kind of thing.
@aburashed even used the same graphic as @average-joe:
Notice the same graphic as almost identical tags?
Also, notice that @aburashed got 39 votes, but very little comments, only 7 comments. This leads me to believe that there is 1 person behind all of those accounts. The promotion called for viewers to leave a link to a post and upvote that post. Well, they upvoted, but didnt leave a link? Sounds fishy to me.
This type of user has no place on Steemit, so please dont support @aburashed at all and make sure to flag him and anybody else who plagiarizes and steals work. Time to clean this type of behavior up.
You got a 1.83% upvote from @postpromoter courtesy of @ginquitti!
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Thanls for making ppl aware! You can report these users to @steemcleaners through steemcleaners.org. They will investigate the case, flag the users, and give you steem as a reward!
Yes. I know about Steemcleaners
Did u report?
Thank you for defending me! I hate people that do things like this
Very good post, thanks for your attention
Someone should post a comment in that post as a warning to others since I don't think they can be removed. I am new here and do not know coding, I have a great idea for an app if it is has not already been created. A watermark for posts. Maybe a setting that automatically watermarks each post, With a function that blacks out all of the lettering when or if it is copied? Can that be done? Or maybe a light colored watermark under the lettering on the posts that have the original authors user name under it?
Something needs to be done to stop this issue
Release the Kraken! You got a 2.17% upvote from @seakraken courtesy of @ginquitti!