Hi folks,
I have written a number of times about this in Discord, but we have had a project that is impersonating ours for 6+ months and has stolen about 1k from Gitcoin users (and in a roundabout way taken funds for us).
I have reported this project a couple of times now to both Gitcoin and Github and am told it will be addressed in Discord, but then hear nothing.
As a last resort I am bringing it up here. One to highlight the specific problem and two to show how difficult it can be as a grantee to get your voices heard about people copying your project.
Well this is embarrassing. Our communications between support and FDD which deals with fraudulent impersonation were not up to par. I will be looking into making sure this doesn’t happen again.
I found your message to support a few months ago and then there was one a couple weeks ago. I don’t have any insight as to why the ball was dropped at this time.
It is fixed now and the fake grant is deactivated (but still visible if you go directly to the link).
That makes me very happy! It’s not a major deal to us as Uni Profs, but I hated the idea of people donating to someone who just set up a page.
As always, Gitcoin rocks!
Thanks Joe! If anything I think the benefit of our case means this has been highlighted. I do feel from the other perspective it’s a little hard to get your voice heard in this scenario, so it might be worth discussing.
