Only this time, instead of Googling my full name, I searched for the initials that I go by in the blog and twittering world: L.M.Leffew.
Lo and behold, what did I find?
A twitter account that has my face. My background image. And my location.
Do I have a twin I never knew about?
No.
What I do have is a Twitter impersonator. And from the looks of it, not a very clever impersonator. Actually, it looks a lot like a bot that is scraping off pieces of other people's statuses. Why or how am I the lucky one who got to be the fresh face of this particular spammy page, I don't know. (At least it's tame.)
For comparison's sake. Here's my Twitter. Robust, fleshed out, lots of tweets. You'll find the link to my Twitter account in the side bar under the bird icon.
And here's the impersonator/spammer. Note the misspelling of the last name in the username, "Lefewf." The very random tweets. And I have a feeling the followers are largely spam-and-scam accounts, as well.
I've already contacted Twitter and reported the impersonation. Today marks a week since I've done so.
I've been looking for information from other people to see how long Twitter took with their impersonation reports and the timeline is looking anywhere from a week to, possibly, a year. (And several people noted that they never got a response from Twitter. They just checked the impersonator account and found it had been suspended. I guess you do get what you pay for. Yes, that was sarcasm. Well, at least they got the right result.)
So could you do me a favor, those of you out in readerland? Would you mind hopping on over to Twitter and reporting this account as the spam that it is?
Here's the link: https://twitter.com/LMLefewf
I'm not picky about whether the account gets suspended for spam or impersonation. I just want it gone.
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