Theft of content on Tough Nickel

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Cloudfare are reported as being the pass-through maskers of the site. I normally submit an abuse report to them here:
   
   https://abuse.cloudflare.com
   
   This is a typical reply email they issue, giving the name of the web hosting provider. (On desktop, to see the image below, right click and open image in new tab, then Ctrl + to zoom)
   
   

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   Readmikenowposted 2 years ago

   Tess,
   
   Thank you for the warning.  I appreciate it.
   
   I've had my stories reproduced many times and in many ways without my permission.
   
   It is a frustrating thing.

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      Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Very frustrating indeed. I hate all content thefts. Creating contents its not rocket science. Still I can get my hands around that topic and come up with an evergreen write.

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      TessSchlesingerposted 2 years agoin reply to this

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         Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Now, this is confusing to me. Reporting the protected to the protector. How can they be a solution? How can the evil be resolve?

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         TheShadowSpecterposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Tess?  It looks as though their website may have been taken down.  I attempted to click on the links cited above to their website, and I only got this one message shown in the screenshot below. 
         
         
         
         I noticed this just recently.  Smart Money Edu may be finally out of our hair.

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            TessSchlesingerposted 2 years agoin reply to this

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               TheShadowSpecterposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Yeah, unfortunately, the Smart Money Edu website came back.  Its brief absence from the Internet was just too good to be true.

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                  Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  Ah,  Omg. these content theives!

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                  TessSchlesingerposted 2 years agoin reply to this

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                     TheShadowSpecterposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                     What I find really baffling is how they are making their money off of our articles.  I've noticed that there doesn't appear to be any advertisements on their website.  However, they must be making money off that website somehow.  Otherwise, they wouldn't spend so much time stealing other people's articles.  Their kind are always greedy.

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                        Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

                        Could it be possible that they're selling copies of complete re-edit of our original content? The original on display are to me a type of show casing.

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                           TheShadowSpecterposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                           It's hard to say, but I would not rule it out.

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                           TheShadowSpecterposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                           One of my fellow Hubbers told me that it appears that they are harvesting e-mail accounts of people who read those articles and provide them with their contact information.  In that manner, they can spam those individuals with sales e-mails any time they want.  In any event, what they are doing is still against the law and so very wrong.

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                              Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

                              Those wrong doers are really among us.                                          In that case, our email accounts with hubpages are not safe.                                        Few days ago, I was checking my gmail with hubpages. I noticed suspioious mails from facebook, which should not, and has never been connected with my Hubpages gmail . I just deleted them. I don't think reporting the instance to HubPages (HP) could yeild a solution, as in the case of DMCA. I believe HP would have held that that's a Googles' question. Thank you.

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                     TheShadowSpecterposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                     Tessa?   I have some good news.  The Smart Money Edu website has been suspended.  Click onto it and you'll see that it states that the account for it has been suspended.  Hopefully, this will be the end of their unethical activities.

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                        Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

                        The Shamdow, I'm glad to note that. Methink this suspension is effect by Google? If so, would be content thieves should think more than two time, before plagiarizing our articles.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   I see articles on the site belonging to Denise McGill., Heidi Thorne, Margaret Pan and Paul Goodman.

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   Abby Slutskyposted 2 years ago

   I am having problems with theft as well. I've yet to receive satisfaction when I complain.

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      Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Abby, you're not alone. D' you think you're?

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   Kosmoposted 2 years ago

   Smart Money ripped off one of my HubPages articles as well, but I didn't protest because I couldn't find an email address for the site!...

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