Hello, i registered in this website, because i am currently trying to understand what goes in the mind of the person who have been using my contents online
since years...
first of all, i inform in advance, that this story have so much of absurd, that even for me it was hard to believe
i was having a normal a life till saturday, i am a musician, i make electronic music and i do DJ in partys, saturday i was having life normaly till i recognize my self on someones profile photo, its even funny, because that wasnt actualy a photo, after check it in detail i recognized the moment and the origin, and it was a screenshot from a youtube
video that this person was using as his photo/avatar, but this isnt the strange thing....
after i check better his profile on a well known social network for musitians, i started to notice, that all the music /tracks from this person, were actully mine, except a very few,
so, i discovered a person, this person had my image on his profile and was using my music (ilegaly... as long as the photo)
the photo was a minor thing, sometimes it happens, i dont consider my self much good looking either, but i recognize that sometimes being a DJ is for some people cool
but i only started to get really worried about this, when i realize this isnt a singular prank using a webpage or a singular profile on a singular social network
after search more about this user, i turned to realize, that he had basicly followed my steps during years, copied photos, music and videos from youtube, in order to
set a very similar network, this was so far, that he made his fake profile in more all the well known social networks, incluiding, Facebook, Youtube, Myspace, Soundcloud, Reverbnation, Mixcloud...
and he have been doing this judging from the registeration dates, since 2009... i discovered him on last Saturday , and i was simply shocked about it...
not just because of the scam it self, i understand the motive why he is being doing this, i just dont understand the "determination" and why he keep doing this...
because its a long period of time, we are talking about 4 years...
i known that everyone will think what i thought at the beggining, this is a simple scam, tipical imposter, who steals images and contents and setup fake profiles
but, after you realize, and search his behaviour, and you notice that he was monitorizing my life in silence, copying my behavior...
i give you an example: every time i presented a new music in my fan page, this person would next ilegaly download the music (or parcialy the content)
and claim in his fake network of page, the same...
so basicly this person was pretending to be me, but, using his personal name, he uses my photos (part of it) and he basicly catches everything i do and pretends
thats from him...
he is doing this for 4 years now, and i am scared, not that i have afraid of him, i am from a distant country, i am from Europe, he is mexican...
but his behavior is so extraordinary in a sense that is unbelieveble, because i eard about many types of scams, many types of atempts to steal identity
but thouse are relativly quick in period, they try to set a scam and have proffit quickly, this isnt the case... and he is not making any money of it...
he is wasting many time trying to do what he is doing, he is wasting many time watching my steps, emulating my person...
but this isnt a fan, or someone that seem admire me, this person have being trying to sell my music, and use his email adress to be able to caught party promotors
atention his country, but still, i dont understand why he keep using my "life" with is own name, when he isnt geting results...
i know this because i am not my self a very well suceded DJ, i am relativly low profile on that, i have a couple partys, sometimes i play in events, but not much serious
i dont make enough money to be professional, but still
i dont understand the sickness of this person, i never knew this person existed till saturday, i never met this person, i never had problems with anyone in mexico
to be know facing this type of situation
i honestly dont think i have harmed anyone i a matter of giving him reason to behave like this...
i could give you here links to let you people enter more into this story in detail and check the absurd by your selfs, but thats not my point
i am strickly interested in understand the behaviour of this person, i have trying to put down his pages in the last 2 days, i am thinking in presenting a report in the police
because he have comited fraud trying to sell my music wich is protected with copyright...
but at the same time, i am curious and i would like to understand better is behavior, but i am not a shrink or anything like it...
why would anyone do this? it isnt for money... sucess, i dont have much (i think...) i am not a much pretty person, i am a regular guy...
please if anyone understand about human behavior or can give me sugestions about this case i would apreciate...
and by the way, very nice forum, i think i will read a lot of posts here, because i do enjoy this kind of "science" my self
Kind regards