Impersonating another person
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Hello,
My son passed away last year and I have just been informed someone has a blog on WordPress using all his photos as their own. They have also stolen all my blogs plus added a few of their own claiming that my son is in fact theirs. As you can imagine this is highly disturbing to me and I want the site removed immediately however I can’t seem to contact anyone direct from WordPress! I understand that fraud and impersonating people is a common issue on the Internet (and after all my life is out there for all to see) but to use my sons photos is just devastating to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The blog is named ‘flyhighlittleone’The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Complaints like this one are not dealt with here on the public support forums. Only Terms of Service Staff have authority in such cases and their authority applies to blogs hosted by WordPress.COM, not to any others.
Abuse – Freedom of Speech:
http://en.wordpress.com/freedom-of-speech/
http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/
http://en.wordpress.com/complaints/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/Court orders: Cases of defamation and impersonation require a court order before we can take action. Official, signed court orders can be emailed to
(email visible only to moderators and staff)For those sites that are hosted here please see this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/
See also http://automattic.com/dmca/Our role is to direct those who post to the relevant support docs like http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/ and copyright infringement and request that Support Staff close the thread, as only Terms of Service Staff have authority in these cases.
This thread is tagged for closure. Please do not continue to post here or to create additional threads of this nature.
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Hi there,
I’m sorry to hear about this situation. In terms of the photos and content, you will most likely need to submit a DMCA takedown notice so we can remove it as a copyright violation, but please report the site via the action bar in the bottom-right corner or otherwise use the abuse link @timethief provided above.
That way our Terms of service team can look into it as we can’t help with cases like this in the forum, as @timethief also explained.
It does appear that the site, https://flyhighlittleone.wordpress.com/, was deleted a few hours ago, so it could be that the issue is now resolved.
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