At a previous company, we had a standard "About" page with our names and photos, didn't think anything of it. Fast forward a few years and we discovered a bunch

At a previous company, we had a standard "About" page with our names and photos, didn't think anything of it. Fast forward a few years and we discovered a bunch of Russian "businesses" who had used our names and photos on their About page. They were selling all sorts of bogus apps and service contracts. We reached out and sent a kind message and asked them to remove our photos, they responded (and apologized!) and said they would remove the content, but of course that never happened. To this day, when people search for me, they find an old photo and my name associated with a fraudulent company selling shit products and services. On a related note, a few of my friends have taken down their long standing personal sites and blogs for this very reason. A few bad actors took their photos, their About pages, a bunch of their blog posts, and used them as if they were their own—quoting them, tweeting them, referencing them in "their work", etc. One of them got wrapped up in an elaborate hiring scam where someone used his photo, email address, and employment history from LinkedIn and got all the way through an interview process. The whole situation was so jarring that he wiped everything—almost a decade of writing, his LinkedIn profile, his Twitter account, all of it.