Alert: Someone is Using My Name For Scamming Others — Updates

Dana Leigh Lyons has just informed me that someone is using my name and profile picture to scam others.

Please kindly block them and report on the account. I have nothing to do with these folks! I received a message from the same person as well.

And thank you so much, Dana Leigh Lyons for letting me know! I’m in your debt.

Update 2.0 (27.06.2022): I received the following message from the Medium support team:

Hello,

Thank you for reporting this.

We have determined the account(s) violate our rules against spam:

https://medium.com/policy/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4

We have now suspended the account(s).

You can also easily report spam by clicking the “…” in the footer of every story and choosing to report the story.

Thanks,

Trust & Safety

Thanks to the support team for the immediate response.

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