Squidoo Thief! Better check him out!
It looks like most of his lenses have been flagged and locked now, and I just reported the penultimate one.
As Relache says, if you find any content thieves on Squidoo, PLEASE use the Report Abuse button at the bottom of the page, providing a link back to the article that was plagiarized.
You'll be helping yourself, and you'll be helping the honest members on Squidoo as well. Plagiarized articles can quite literally take money away from legitimate ones, since the ad pool is divvied up among the top 85,000 pages each month.
I have not-entirely-altruistic reasons for acting swiftly to report stolen content on that site.
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