How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 7, 2008 @02:11AM from the trademark-your-name dept.

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?"

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You caught a wave! by Zero__Kelvin · 2008-07-07 02:14 · Score: 1, Offtopic

"I was ego-surfing the other day ..."
You seem to have caught a wave, unless of course your name happens to be Mortimer Onlyoneontheplanet!

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ReMod. by JCSoRocks · 2008-07-07 02:53 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Informative!? no! Fuuuunnny. Watch this.

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