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How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers?
CurtMonash writes "I was ego-surfing the other day, and was surprised to discover that I was listed as a member of an on-line dating service. It turns out these scamsters generate web pages for lots of (FirstName, LastName) combos, each claiming that the named individual is a member of their service. I posted about this, and discovered other people were upset, at least one had lost interest in a guy because he appeared to be a member, and so on. I've since followed up with lessons learned, a big one being that everybody should have a visible web presence. But frankly, the ideas I've come up with for fighting this kind of reputation scam seem fairly weak. Do Slashdotters have any better ideas?"
You seem to have caught a wave, unless of course your name happens to be Mortimer Onlyoneontheplanet!
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The best way to fight this is to use an Online Reputation Management Service. It is best to sign up with a company that can manage SEO effectively, for obvious reasons. I know a company that offers a very good service for this. PHXX.COM, Virtual Internet Profile. They see most interest from high net worth individuals, but anyone could use the service.