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Ask HN: Someone's using my ID on the web, what should I do ?
He took a domain name and a fake yahoo email with my name and surname. What would you do if you were in the same position ? Should I care or not ?
- rcfox 16y agoHow do you know it's fake? I have a Google Alert set up for my name, and see news about at least 6 other people with the same name as me.
- enokd 16y agoI know it because of the address on who.is, it's mine (I should have known if there was someone with the same name at my building). The all thing seems to be a bad joke, but I want to know who is behind it
- antichaos 16y agoRegister another top-level domain under your name and out-SEO the imposter.
- enokd 16y agoGood point , I'm not so good at SEO but I'll do my best.
- famfam 16y agoMaybe you're on Substance D?
- enokd 16y agoI thougt about that but no, I also thought about sleepwalking but as far as I know myself definitively no.
- proexploit 16y agoYou could try contacting Yahoo about the email, I'm not sure how well that would work, but you've got tons to work with on the domain name. You're you, he's not. Dispute the domain, how it's your name and your address: http://wdprs.internic.net/ http://wdprs.internic.net/ Additionally check out http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/ http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/ if you want to go further.
- enokd 16y agoThanks for these good advise and for the links.