Someone copied blog

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  cairennrhysauthor · Member · Mar 13, 2015 at 2:58 pm

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  I noticed someone has created a free WP.com blog, and just used my friend’s blog’s link to redirect to their new blog.

  How do we report this and will WP notify the person and/or delete the blog?

  It’s content scraping – and although I do not believe the person is smart enough to understand what they even did here, it needs to be removed immediately.

  Please advise.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 13, 2015 at 3:03 pm

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  The person whose copyright has been violated can act but we (you and I ) can’t. Our WordPress.COM Terms of Service Staff cannot help with any site that is not hosted here by WordPress.COM. Please see this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/
  See also http://automattic.com/dmca/

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  cairennrhysauthor · Member · Mar 13, 2015 at 3:06 pm

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  Thank you. I know that we cannot, but he asked me to inquire so as not to draw attention to the fake blog.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 13, 2015 at 3:18 pm

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  Understood and best wishes to your friend.