Do you often post your photos in Moments of Wechat, Instagram or other social media? Please notice, your photos may have been preseved of purpose to sell, but you're still kept inside a drum!
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First, I have to tell you a real story. Liu, a university student, found that her photo posted in a dating site as advertisement, but she just only shared the photo in WeChat's Moments. The photo, showed a beautiful girl, is with some dirty words below to attract people clicking.
She felt very confused as well as scared, because the stealer must be her Wechat friends, but everyone looked good. Without any ideas about it, she called the police.
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It's not the first time someone's photo was stolen. Reported by Legal Daily, Lin commented a underwear in Taobao with photos before, but she never imagine that a lot of Taobao shop use her photo for advertising after months.
She deleted the comment immediately, but still too late.
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To make clear the profit chain of private photo selling, a journalist pretends to be a purchaser left his contact information one some "photo forum". Before long, several "photo sellers" added his Wechat.
"We have all kind of private photos, beautiful girl, handsome man, or rich man, etc. We can provide update for some photos, wanna to see some sample?"
"This girl, I want it. How much?"
"Ten RMB. Don't worry, all photos were selected myself. You wouldn't find the same on the net" He said“136 photo in all.”
It is ordinary way if utilizing these photos for advertisement. However, the more frequent and horrific useage will be pretending to be another you!
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In this situation, "you" can deceived your friends or family. The same name, the same head portrait, even the same Moments. People are easy to be cheated.
"Add me again please,
I delete you carelessly just now."
"Lend me some money,
I'll pay it back tomorrow"
"You" also can use these photo to make friends on the net, then defraud them. A lot of news were reported that a man pretending to be a girl swindled many people.
If the police can't find the real criminal, your photos may be put out as criminal.
Foreigner's photos are in great demand yet, because bad people believe that others will be cheated easily if they think you are a foreigner.
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All in all, I would never mean that you must stop to post your photo in social media, because that's why we need it. But setting groups and not add stranger will be good method.
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