{"id":35,"date":"2007-03-05T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-cubed.info\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2007-05-20T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T10:48:44","slug":"misues-of-my-personal-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Misuse of my Personal Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a couple of emails today which I almost ignored as they looked like possible spam (adware\/spyware infection sites looking to get me to visit their website, or meta-spam). However, there was a chance they were genuine and they were about someone misusing my portrait from my web page on a fraud site. So, I checked the <a href=\"http:\/\/triplink-courier.tripod.com\/id4.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Fraud Site\">site<\/a> and found that the emails were legitimate and the site isn&#8217;t. They&#8217;re using my thumbnail portrait for a fake person called Curtis Andrew. They&#8217;re downloading the image directly from my University server, including making the picture a link to the larger copy of the photo. This makes them vulnerable to a counter-attack. Once I&#8217;ve made the complaint to their service provider (it&#8217;s a Lycos-hosted service on tripod.com) I&#8217;m going to replace the files they&#8217;re using with warnings that this is a fake, while moving the files to new names on my sites, A bit of work on my part but not too much to avoid helping out fraudsters. I think using live URLs on their part was a big mistake in a number of ways. Thank goodness for stupid criminals.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Update: Lycos were very good and let me know they&#8217;ve taken the site down for violation of their T&#038;Cs, within 12 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a couple of emails today which I almost ignored as they looked like possible spam (adware\/spyware infection sites looking to get me to visit their website, or meta-spam). However, there was a chance they were genuine and they were about someone misusing my portrait from my web page on a fraud site. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-crime-and-real-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}