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Ask HN: Someone impersonates my GitHub project, what to do?

4•nilsherzig•2mo ago
Someone created a website and social media account for a project I've built two years ago and published on GitHub.

> llocalsearch dot cloud

> x dot com/llocalsearch

> there also is a coin listed on coinbase lmao (might be unrelated)

I'm not aware of any ongoing scams, but I'm concerned about their intentions. Do you guys think I should care? Is this a "normal" thing for semi popular projects?

It's truly amazing how much generated / automated trash it out there, that even GitHub projects get fake social media accounts now.

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123malware321•2mo ago
as you noted its even chance tis auto-generated or included in a large batch of copycat activities trying to copycat any repos which have certain engagement with them.

you could contact github about that sid e if there's issues on there, but thats MS so they arent always as helpful. For the social media thats a bit shittier, as people are free to register names, its not illegal or against the EULA.

if you are worried about scams, you could put a note or an additional .md file on your projects which emphasizes these accounts are not affiliated to your project. - depending on the volume of impersonations that might be a bit much bookkeeping, so perhaps a generic message on readme.md that there are people impersonating, and if applicable a list of your own accounts that _are_ affiliated with the project. - then atleast/perhaps people can be aware of the situation from visiting your github.

p2detar•2mo ago
What was the license in your project?

Someone copied a game I made from GH and published it on their shit crypto platform as DRM-free asset. Mine was a MIT project, but the assets were bought and not MIT-licensed. I was thinking of doing something but didn't since it would eat my time for pretty much nothing.

zduoduo•2mo ago
Could you report this to the GitHub platform? Alternatively, you could add a statement to your own (GitHub) homepage to prevent others from being scammed.
KomoD•2mo ago
> there also is a coin listed on coinbase lmao (might be unrelated)

Definitely not unrelated as the x bio says "Now on SOL". It's pretty clear that the goal is just to trick people into buying their coin

dakoosha•2mo ago
Unfortunately, such things happen more often than people realize, especially for semi-popular open source projects. You can do a few things about it. One of them is to report to GitHub about your repo being impersonated. Also, you can clarify ownership on GitHub, for example, by adding a note in your README or a dedicated .md file stating which accounts or websites are officially associated with your project