If someone had stolen your pics and was using them online woud you want to know?

Steve9214 · 04/09/15 - 18:20

I use some hookup sites, and there are a lot of sick fakers on there trying to scam or just trying to get you to travel somewhere to meet someone who does not exist.

I like to weed out these fakers and then blacklist them, name and shame.

Have been chatting to one in last few days - sent me a few pics (they always send pics without being asked).

When I searched the pictures on google it came up as being a young woman who has just got married and has a lovely daughter.

Question is - should I message her and tell her some sick so and so is using her pics.
He has not put them up on any dodgy sites yet - they are clean pics - just portraits and wedding shots so far.

Would you want a complete stranger telling you some other stranger had downloaded your pics off facebook and was using them to try to scam gullible lonely guys ??

Misanthropy_83 · 04/09/15 - 18:43

Have you ever seen the programme catfish? this happens a lot on there
someone falls in love with someone online and they find out the person in the picture isn't who they have been talking to
and on the programme they track down this person and it's weird when the other person meets them because it's like they know them but they don't and they've never heard of the other person and don't know why they would be posting their pictures online claiming it's them, it's very confusing and it makes for good television

Steve9214 · 04/09/15 - 19:39

I use the same checking of pics techniques they do on Catfish.
It is a great programme - all teens should be made to watch !!

I can understand a faker on a hookup site using pics from, say, a porn site or even a "readers Wives" type of site.
However I have seen pics taken from Linkedin - the business site, and the latest was a load of pics of someone at a wedding taken from Facebook.

I really wanted to know if people on here would want to know if their pics had been stolen and used by some sicko, or would they rather not know ??

Relly · 04/09/15 - 21:24

I'd want to know, and I'd also want to know what to do about it. Is there a law that covers anything like this? Identity theft, or something similar?

If I was notifying someone that their pics had been stolen, I'd be very careful. I'd be a stranger to the person, obviously, so I'd be ultra-polite and non-threatening. Basically, if you've tracked the person down via social media (or whatever), then the person may feel that the same sicko who stole the pics could do the same.

Surely there is some kind of action that could be taken?

Toby LaRhone · 05/09/15 - 00:09

I'm told porn sites are littered with my images.
All in the best possible taste though.

Aneechik · 05/09/15 - 01:12

Absolutely not.

Steve9214 · 05/09/15 - 10:51

I think there is no redress against someone stealing your pics, unless you can get a copyright claim, which is a civil matter not a criminal one I think.

Thanks for the replies - I thought it best not to tell the person her pics have been used, especially if there is nothing they can really do about it.

I once heard a radio programme about behaviour and a psychologist told a tale of how he was on a plane and there was a young girl sitting in front of him, and next to her was a much older guy.
He heard the older guy using sleazy mind control techniques to find out all about her, and what she was doing, where she was staying after the plane landed etc.
When the sleazy guy went to the loo, the Doctor told the teenage girl that it was none of his business, but when they got off the plane the older guy would offer her to share his cab, and if she accepted then he was confident that "bad things would happen to her".

She immediately launched into a tirade of abuse against the Doctor, as he said he was now "the bad guy" for suggesting the charming guy was up to no good.
However at the airport he saw them both and the sleazy guy was yelling at the teen for refusing to get in a cab with him, "after he had been so nice to her"

Sometimes the right thing is not what people want to hear.

Aneechik · 05/09/15 - 21:43

Steve9214 wrote: »

I think there is no redress against someone stealing your pics, unless you can get a copyright claim, which is a civil matter not a criminal one I think.

Thanks for the replies - I thought it best not to tell the person her pics have been used, especially if there is nothing they can really do about it.

I once heard a radio programme about behaviour and a psychologist told a tale of how he was on a plane and there was a young girl sitting in front of him, and next to her was a much older guy.
He heard the older guy using sleazy mind control techniques to find out all about her, and what she was doing, where she was staying after the plane landed etc.
When the sleazy guy went to the loo, the Doctor told the teenage girl that it was none of his business, but when they got off the plane the older guy would offer her to share his cab, and if she accepted then he was confident that "bad things would happen to her".

She immediately launched into a tirade of abuse against the Doctor, as he said he was now "the bad guy" for suggesting the charming guy was up to no good.
However at the airport he saw them both and the sleazy guy was yelling at the teen for refusing to get in a cab with him, "after he had been so nice to her"

Sometimes the right thing is not what people want to hear.

That's from the book The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker. It also includes advice for women about what to do with unsolicited emails from men.

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