I'm fuming right now. I have always known that copying and using a girls tone goes on. But I had no idea the extent of it. A quick search of copyscape.com brought to my attention numerous girls have taken entire ads, and website pages word for word from me. Just using a different number. Even my stolen pictures! So warning to all hobbyists- If you want to be a little extra careful you can copy and paste the website url in copyscape and see if its been lifted from some other girl and maybe about to be ripped off. This is the ripped off ad posted in Dallas (I'm in phx) http://dallas.backpage.com/FemaleEscorts/your-choice-brand-new-20/10660067 she edited out the part where I boast about my great reviews and provide the TER link to them. I wonder how many people these girls have managed to rip off with my ads and pictures: (

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I know about www.tineye.com but was not aware of www.copyscape.com

Copyscape is a great piece of software and its free!

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Thanks Chloe.... I just put one of my webpages in, and there was a direct hit.. almost word for word, they just changed the "I" to "we"... why is it so hard to come up with your own wording????  I'm with you right now, I'm so pi**ed off... just wrote them and escortsite....

Not sure if I can post the link to her blog? But it REALLY helped me out. Are you mad as hell?? One girl stole my friends and was so lazy about it forgot to take my friends name of the end of the copied text!Put in all your pages from your sites, and texts from your ads- I hope you don't find anymore but its best to know if there is.

Thank you for posting this. I found, sadly, that another lady is plagiarizing my site all over the damn Internet. Again. This happens more and more often, unfortunately. We all work so hard to create our distinctive personas, and it's incredibly difficult to write creative and unique ads or websites that accurately portray who we are. It's flattering that someone found our work so good she is using it as her own, but plagiarism is NOT OKAY, no matter what. It's theft, plain and simple.

So what can you do? First, email the person who has plagiarized you or stolen your photos. Politely but firmly request that they remove the copyrighted content immediately. Then, if the content is on a third-party site, contact the owner of that site and inform them of the plagiarism. Link to both the original source and the stolen material, and invite them to contact you if they have any questions or require more information. Most are happy to work with you, because they don't want the legal hassle you can bring on them.

What legal hassle, you ask? Why, a DMCA complaint!

There's more to that than I care to go into, and while I've dealt with it before, I'm no expert, so here are some experts:
http://www.devtopics.com/how-to-file-a-dmca-complaint
http://www.hooverwebdesign.com/articles/how-to-file-a-dmca-copyright-violation.html
http://www.brainz.org/dmca-takedown-101

Best of luck.