Bogus Downloads of Books PDFs
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I’m an author (inactive on WordPress) but 2 of my books are being offered as free downloads in PDF form on WordPress pages. These are bogus offers as the PDFs do not exist as the 2 books are only available as paperbacks and neither has yet sold a copy. My guess is that the links provided for the free downloads are actually for the purposes of ID theft. How do I contact admin about these?
I’ve also found 3 pages/sites with other of my titles advertised for free, but the links are now dead as WordPress discontinued them for breaking rules, so they’re already aware that such abuse exists.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Rootjosh ~ thanks very much for that rapid reply and link. I’ll report the abuse at once.
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PS: having gone to the link I simply can’t be bothered with it! I can only report one abuse at a time; and then I have to select an option re which neither offered applies to the specific abuse! The closest one is “copyright infringement”, but it doesn’t actually apply as, as said above, the PDFs don’t actually exist, and the links given on the bogus pages are probably for the purposes of ID theft fishing. If I then follow the “copyright infringement” link I have to fill in a very long form, supplying not only the URL (they say they won’t accept another WordPress URL), plus the URL to download the nonexistent PDFs. It would take me at least 3 hours to gather all of the details they want and make 2 abuse reports, when the actual nature of the abuse which is almost certainly ID theft, won’t even have been addressed as the options and forms are too limited re what can be reported. I repeat: the options I can click on re the form of ‘abuse’ do not apply to the specific case. If they’d only allow one to send an email I could give the key links to the pages and they key details in 15 minutes max. WordPress could then close down the bogus pages and problem solved.
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