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Someone's impersonating this blog
A personal blog gets impersonated with stolen content and fake URLs.
In brief
A personal blog gets impersonated with stolen content and fake URLs. Matt Bee discovered a fake mataroa.site blog impersonating his mataroa.blog site with stolen content and a watermark of his real URL. Originally reported by Mataroa.
Impersonation detected
Matt Bee found a link to his blog on mataroa.site that shows his posts but lacks the latest updates.
Stolen content
The impersonated site has a watermark of mattbee.mataroa.blog and shows 404 errors for newer posts and comments.
Cloudflare scripts
The impersonated site uses Cloudflare scripts to obfuscate mailto links and track analytics.
Hidden github.io link
The index page contains a hidden link to a Chinese github.io page for a website cloning tool.
Abuse report failure
Matt Bee sent an abuse report to Namecheap but the form leads to a blank page.
No legal recourse
Matt Bee lacks legal resources to do a DMCA takedown and has no idea if the impersonators will act.
What to remember
Matt Bee discovered a fake mataroa.site blog impersonating his mataroa.blog site with stolen content and a watermark of his real URL.
