New types of internet frauds

[Pradeep1210]

Hi,

Today I googled around for my ID (pradeep1210) to see how much I'm visible to the world.
And to my surprise I found many links where people have created IDs by my name

e.g.
These are not me and I've not created these IDs.
http://en.netlog.com/pradeep1210
http://www.itags.org/blogs/pradeep1210/


So, are these people using my reputation to their benefits?
And is there anything I can do about it?

[Nightwalker83]

I've found a lot of people on other forums (a lot in German) that have a member Nightwalker83 and it is not me.

[arunb]

you could try copyrighting your names

[I_Love_My_Vans]

You could go to their house and politely request they relinquish control over the username you suggested... either that or you can just forget about it.

[DeanMc]

But what if they had it first? Then it would be their username OH THE SHAME!

[Pradeep1210]

But what if they had it first? Then it would be their username OH THE SHAME!

[mendhak]

It is possible. Your username indicates that there are at least 1209 other Pradeeps in the world.

[JuggaloBrotha]

There's another JuggaloBrotha on the web out there, I don't know anything about him though.

I did notice that it would appear that this other one started about 2 maybe 3 years after me and 99% of the google hits come up with results for me and not him so it's all good.

[dilettante]

Just hope he doesn't resemble you facially, you've never posted any pics of yourself anywhere, and he never commits a crime!

[kfcSmitty]

I'm the only kfcSmitty. It is my go-to username if Smitty is taken.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

ILMV was taking on XBOX live (for GTA4 on PC) so I had to use VMLI...

That was a sad day :'(

[abhijit]

I tend to use my first name everywhere, so I rarely get a logon with my first name.

[honeybee]

Hi,

Today I googled around for my ID (pradeep1210) to see how much I'm visible to the world.
And to my surprise I found many links where people have created IDs by my name

...

So, are these people using my reputation to their benefits?
And is there anything I can do about it?

mmm... I remembered the movie Lucky Number Slevin. It has Josh Hartnett standing in front of Morgan Freeman, claiming he is not the right guy. Freeman asks him, "Suppose I decide to give you x hundred thousand dollars, are you still the wrong guy?"

Rephrasing that, suppose you stand to gain by these people using the same ID, would you still like them removed?

.

[pcuser]

I was upset when I found out that my alter ego had been using MY username. I could've kicked myself...

[visualAd]

There is / was another visualAd who frequented a porn sharing forum. It did wonders for my reputation.

[FunkyDexter]

I think I'm actually the only FunkyDexter out there which is quite surprising really.

There seem to be a few Dexters but none of them has my funk.