Copy/Paste Scammers here on MyLot
By leedug
@leedug (920)
United States
April 29, 2007 11:19pm CST
I was checking my work at home discussion I started a while back to reply to some answers. I took the time to make the discussion because I know how difficult it can be for people to find work at home jobs that suit them. Anyways, after taking so much time to post a lot of links for people to check out, I see that the last person to respond to my post simply copied almost everything I wrote then pasted it as a reply. Not only that but he also pasted an off topic pic to go along with it, which tells me the only thing he/she is doing is trying to cheat Mylot into making more money that is clearly not deserved. Is there anything else that can be done about this besides reporting it?
It just makes me wonder how many people out there have taken the time out to research things, and then post quality discussion to help people out, just to have some lowlife scammer come along, plaigiarize their writing just to make a few cheap cents off of it. The most idiotic thing is that the said scammer reposted MY OWN discussion into the same discussion! I guess he/she figured when some discussions get older that people don't bother coming back to check!
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3 responses
@alexdiazgranados (678)
• United States
30 Apr 07
First, let me express my outrage at what you experienced. Trying to come up with good discussions here is tough enough, thinking up ones that actually help others (or try to, at least) is difficult, and adding links to relevant sites is time-consuming as it is, so any time someone does what you do it is to be appreciated and even celebrated as a good deed. No scammer or lazy-a$$ member of myLot has the right to copy/paste or manually retype your original text and pass it off as his or her own reply to. as you say, "make a few cheap cents off of it."
Thing is, though, that some people just don't care about ethics, morality, intellectual honesty, or even common decency. It happens everywhere, not just online, but I think that the Internet is the "perfect" place for almost anyone to hurt others, either by cheating them/screwing them over in myLot, or by dehumanizing the other person just because the technology allows one to do hurtful and mean things to someone else who's "just" an avatar or username on a website or messenger thing.
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@jc_star10 (953)
• Indonesia
30 Apr 07
There is surely many those people these days. What happened here ? It surely annoying. I can understand how felt to have someone posted a response with only copy/paste. That is not a response, that only repetition. I don't know what to say anymore about this. I hope we can get through this fast.
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@kelly60 (4547)
• United States
30 Apr 07
It happened to me, so I checked the profile for this member. Many other discussions and responses were more of the same. I reported over 20 discussions and responses to myLot that day.
