Saturday, January 29, 2011

IMPORTANT-SCAM/COPYRIGHT NEWS

I have had a time lately with spam coming through this blog and now some internet sites that have stolen pictures of our dear pets to make money.  It is heartbreaking to know that this goes on;  however thieves seem to be everywhere.  We are so sorry for the people that purchase pets online from these sites and they are actually pets that belong to other owners. The pet business for money online is disgusting to us.  Some people will go to any length to get money and when it comes to actually stealing ones pet pictures, posting them elsewere to sell illegally, we find it just sickening.  We think of the people that have sent in money and are waiting for that pet in the picture and it will never come to them because it belongs to his/her real owner.

We urge everyone of our friends to please check your sites with CopyScape or any other kind of Plagiarism alerts you can find.  We do not want this to happen to you.  It is horrible to go through and very upsetting.

We thank so very much Scout and Freyja's mom again for not only helping us but saving us. We don't know how to do a lot of things and she has always been here to help us.  We think everyone knows her well on these blogs and she is a true angel.   We were really just going to delete the entire blog because of this recent horrible activity.  

Thank you so very much to Scout and Freyja's mom...."Loving for a Living".  


Scout and Freyja's mom did this for us.  We know she is the very best!


PLEASE CHECK YOUR BLOG OR WEBSITE AND DO NOT LET THESE "PEOPLE" GET AWAY WITH THIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.

Lots of love.

29 comments:

Oskar said...

Why are people so dumb?

Nubbin wiggles,
Oskar

Emma Rose said...

How would we be able to tell if someone did this to us?

NAK and The Residents of The Khottage Now With KhattleDog! said...

Sorry about that -

We've been furry happy with the spam khapture on Blogger

Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra

Angels Amber and Max DaWeenie and Mom said...

Hi there....Amber and Rusty's Mom here.....Got your email today and will get back with you next week. I would like to learn a little more about this Copyscape and how it works. Amber has only done 10 posts but I can see how this can happen very easily. It's just too bad there are people like this in the world.

Rusty sends his love to Holly and we'll all write next week.

Lorenza said...

Sorry it happened to you!
Good job with the water-mark!
Take care
Kisses and hugs
Lorenza

Bella Roxy & Macdui said...

We'll check. Glad you've sorted out your problem.

XXXOOO Daisy, Kendra & Bella

Cheyenne -Millie said...

I did not know that people did this to other people. We hope hope this isn't happening to us! We will look into it.

The Daily Pip said...

I am so sorry Holly!!! I will definitely check copyscape tonight. Thanks for the warning.

Your pal, Pip

Unknown said...

There are people who are so mean and dishonest!
This never happens to our furkids at all, they are the most trustworthy, loyal and honest kids.

Duke said...

Why do some hoomans have to be so evil! Thank you for the info, Holly.

Love ya lots
Maggie and Mitch

Rocky Creek Scotties and Rocky Creek Ramblings said...

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. One other thing you can do too is to put your name in the corner of every picture you post - most people won't take the time to remove it.

XOXO
Lilly, Piper, Carrleigh and Ruairi

My Mind's Eye said...

OH my gosh Holly we had no idea folks were 'selling' other pets via pictures online!!! We knew folks sometimes stole pictures but to say you have a pet for sale...mean mean mean!!!
Mom has started putting our name on our special pictures in hopes that would keep folks from taking them.

Hugs sweetie and thank you for the info.
Madi and Mom

Brian's Home Blog said...

I actually had my first 2 blogs hijacked by porn bandits. I will check into this. Thanks.

Unknown said...

Holly, your mama and I talked about this yesterday and both of us were extremely upset that people could do such heartbreaking and mean things. I don't know Scout and Freyja's mom but she must be a wonderful person to help you so much and I thank her too for being so nice and helpful to you! I'm so glad you were able to get this Copyscape so pictures will now be safe. So many people would really miss your blog if you gave it up.

Love,
Auntie Gwen & Darcie

Sagira said...

Who stole your photos? That is crazy. I need to have Jeremy start marking ours then if stuff like this is happening.

Golden Woofs! SUGAR said...

Woof! Woof! As I said before in my orevious posts in regards to this matter ... we are very unhappy that this is happening. This is the reason why/ n caused us to post less. Not only they steal your photos but most importantly precious photos. FYI: your mom knows photoshop ... ever since this happened to us we put a watermark on all the photos we posted. If mom does not know we can help. You can see a ©SGR at a paw (with hidden text on it). Apprently if someone copies your photo you can detect it when they cut the photo cause of the water mark. Also, you need to save your photos in a specific name so it can be easily track when you google it. We haven't google lately but we also set a google alerts everday which helps(we know who copies content from our blog). If you have time check out our previous posts in regards to copywrite n how to take their site down. Just let us know n will be glad to help out.
Happy Sunday. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar

Anonymous said...

GRRRRRRR! Peoples like that make me really mad! I'm sorry that happened to you. I sure hope you contacted the webhost for the site that stole your pictures. Mom says the webhost will automatically shut down any site that steals from another site.

I hope your week gets better!

Wiggles & Wags,
mayzie

Anonymous said...

Ugh. Wake up call to us... our photos have been used before and Sugar's mom was wonderful to help us. Im heading over to copyscape now to see whats up..


Paige

FiveSibesMom said...

Thank you for the alert. I, too, have been happy with Blogger, and I've always put a copyright notice on pics & blog - however, I'm adding the site watermark across my pics now as an added precaution. It's a shame, as I always felt I those watermarks compromise the integrity of the creative photo, but in an effort to protect our work, it's a necessity in this cyber world. Thank you again. Also, for the info on Copysentry/Copyscape. I'll be sharing your info.

Kritter Keeper at Farm Tails said...

i found my photos on google images before from blogging so someone could easily lift them. i need to do watermarking too but get too busy. thanks so much for the heads up! heard of copyscape but never used it. take care!

Peggy Frezon said...

I didn't really think about this before. Sure sounds frustrating. Helpful warning, thank you.

Trixie, Lily, and Sammy-Joe said...

We think that is so strange that people would do that... but Mama says she's actually heard of people doing that with CHILDREN'S pictures! They'd pretend to be an adoption lawyer and put up pictures of kids that "needed families"... except those kids HAVE families! Then people would give the person lots of money to arrange an adoption, and of course nothing would ever happen because the kids have families and their parents don't even know their pics are on the site. So... some people are just BAD examples of humans!!!

♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥ said...

Wow, we go away for a few days and look what happens! How did you find all this out? It is very scary. And now not seeing a post from you for a few days - is everything OK?

Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara

Remington said...

How do we find out if this has been done? How did you get the logo on your pics? This is not good!

Marg said...

That is just awful. How did you know someone was stealing your pictures?? I have had a lot of spam on my blog lately so guess I had better ask my host about all this. I do have a copyright on my blog. We sure are sorry this has happened to you. Take care.

Elaine Pritchard said...

I am so sorry that people have stolen from you. It's also very bad if they are using them for what amounts to fraud.

I've never checked my site with copyscape, but I'll have a look and see if I can figure it out.

Your blog is lovely and so pretty. Please don't let these mean people get you down.

Love and licks, Winnie x

Scout and Freyja said...

We are so furry happy that you blogged about your exPURRience. Momma will be in touch with you this weekend to work with you on the watermark for your photos.

Neeko said...

Wow! How did you find out that you were in danger of this scam???
Just awful!
Glad to hear your bloggie is safe know :o)

Smooches,
Neeko ♥

KB said...

I need to check things out with Copyscape. I've had the spam problem but I'm not aware of any photos being stolen. It's horrible that someone stole your photos and for bad purposes.

Once I had someone come up to me in a pet store insisting that she wanted to buy my dog (who was with me). It was so bizarre. No worries - I said NO - no amount of money would convince me.

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