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Kickstarter Identity theft

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Former Member over 12 years ago

A post warning others of what I found just an hour ago.

 

I had a project hosted on Indiegogo of a case for the raspberry pi.

 

I have just found all my material on Kickstarters website hosted by a user pretending to be me. He claims he is from the Uk, and is taking money under my name. He even has my videos linked.

 

Due to the seriousness of this, and the fact that it is identity theft I intend making this viral. This could have serious impact to my name and career should the hacker fund the project, and do a run with the funds.

 

The project name is Raspberry Slice - it can be found archived on the Indiegogo website, and is now currently funding on Kickstarter!!!!

 

I have posted about it on Kickstarters Facebook page, and also reported it on their site.

 

This is really, really, not good enough and scary when you think about it. Their screening is obviously terrible, as is their user checks.

 

 

Brian Garvey.

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    Nate1616 over 12 years ago

    It looks as though kickstarter has already taken it down.

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    Nate1616 over 12 years ago

    It looks as though kickstarter has already taken it down.

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    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Nate1616

    He cancelled the fund, and It does appear they have now deleted him.

     

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/957482907/raspberry-slice-raspberry-pi-case

     

    It throws a dim view for me from now on, as to if a kickstarter project is legit or not if it is that easy steal others identity.

     

    Brian,

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    ntewinkel over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    @Brian - good on ya for catching that and forcing them to take it down!

     

    ps, it's too bad you couldn't take over that kickstarter campaign - the scammer seemed to be doing well with it!

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