There is a company, Tack Designs, who is working very aggressively for years to sabotage my online identity! They have posted a fake "Lynne Ruffin" accounts on social media sites like Pinterest even. I have asked them to cease and desist and they have not. They still have a profile on Pinterest, FACEBOOK, and other social media outlets using my name with a picture of a white lady holding a rose up to her face.
The way I came about finding out was they recently hacked my reseller account with GoDaddy. They appear to be a company based out of Oklahoma, however, I have a gut feeling they are a company based right here in Norfolk, Virginia.
For years I have been seeing this photo online of a white lady with a rose up to her face. If she was a real person I think in three years her photo would have changed at least once. The photo has been static for years now, never changing. When someone Googles my name "Lynne Ruffin" the photo normally always shows up in the first five selections. Now they are posting a lot of photos to Pinterest which is really impacting my online image. They have photos of cupcakes, holiday photos, random photos, photos of superheroes and everything else since I contacted them via email the other day. They are pinning photos with my name to sabotage my image even further.
I think this is a form of identity theft in its worse case. Why would someone use my name with someone else's face that totally does not look like me? Why is it so easy for someone to set up shop to completely steal someone else's personal and professional online identity?
I have spent years, since 2005 when I coined my first domain name to build aggressively build my online presence. Then to have someone sabotage it is very disheartening. Someone really needs to pass legislation to circumvent this. I am an every day person. I'm not an athlete, star, political figure. I have children and grandchildren for heaven's sake. I need to be able to pursue my entrepreneurship online without having to worry about someone pulling the wrong from under me.
I have written FACEBOOK, GoDaddy, Pinterest, and everyone else whom I can to register a grievance. They know and I know it won't go anywhere. I really feel this should be illegal.
In years past when my websites were receiving as much activity as they are now I was getting business. Over the past three years since this has been happening my business has been zilch. It has caused me great financial hardship.
I have even written to them and asked that they stop. It was to no avail. Something has to be done. The more challenging life becomes with the financial hardships I am incurring the more I will pursue putting an end to it. It has gone on for too long.
Tack Designs you are one of the most ruthless types of businesses I have ever had the displeasure to have to come across. They literally had the FACEBOOK icon link from my Web-Styles business redirected to their FACEBOOK "Lynne Ruffin" page.
If anyone can offer me any suggestions, advice, or recommendations on how I can get this stopped and their phony profiles using my name removed, please let me know.
Very Respectfully,
Lynne Ruffin
T/A Web Styles
Owner/Operator
3007 Tait Terrace
Norfolk, Virginia 23509
Phone: (757) 855-2514
Email; Help@Web-Styles.com
The way I came about finding out was they recently hacked my reseller account with GoDaddy. They appear to be a company based out of Oklahoma, however, I have a gut feeling they are a company based right here in Norfolk, Virginia.
For years I have been seeing this photo online of a white lady with a rose up to her face. If she was a real person I think in three years her photo would have changed at least once. The photo has been static for years now, never changing. When someone Googles my name "Lynne Ruffin" the photo normally always shows up in the first five selections. Now they are posting a lot of photos to Pinterest which is really impacting my online image. They have photos of cupcakes, holiday photos, random photos, photos of superheroes and everything else since I contacted them via email the other day. They are pinning photos with my name to sabotage my image even further.
I think this is a form of identity theft in its worse case. Why would someone use my name with someone else's face that totally does not look like me? Why is it so easy for someone to set up shop to completely steal someone else's personal and professional online identity?
I have spent years, since 2005 when I coined my first domain name to build aggressively build my online presence. Then to have someone sabotage it is very disheartening. Someone really needs to pass legislation to circumvent this. I am an every day person. I'm not an athlete, star, political figure. I have children and grandchildren for heaven's sake. I need to be able to pursue my entrepreneurship online without having to worry about someone pulling the wrong from under me.
I have written FACEBOOK, GoDaddy, Pinterest, and everyone else whom I can to register a grievance. They know and I know it won't go anywhere. I really feel this should be illegal.
In years past when my websites were receiving as much activity as they are now I was getting business. Over the past three years since this has been happening my business has been zilch. It has caused me great financial hardship.
I have even written to them and asked that they stop. It was to no avail. Something has to be done. The more challenging life becomes with the financial hardships I am incurring the more I will pursue putting an end to it. It has gone on for too long.
Tack Designs you are one of the most ruthless types of businesses I have ever had the displeasure to have to come across. They literally had the FACEBOOK icon link from my Web-Styles business redirected to their FACEBOOK "Lynne Ruffin" page.
If anyone can offer me any suggestions, advice, or recommendations on how I can get this stopped and their phony profiles using my name removed, please let me know.
Very Respectfully,
Lynne Ruffin
T/A Web Styles
Owner/Operator
3007 Tait Terrace
Norfolk, Virginia 23509
Phone: (757) 855-2514
Email; Help@Web-Styles.com
