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From: Michael Hall <mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2014-09-04 20:26 GMT-05:00
Subject: Re: [loco-contacts] Impersonation using Ubuntu Community resources
To: amujicaz@xxxxxxxxx, rt <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Hello IS,

I brought this up to Ryan Finnie on IRC, he suspended the Launchpad
account and recommended filing this RT to have the wiki page removed as
spam and watch out for any other potential abuse from this user.

Thanks, and thank you Andres for bring this to our attention.

Michael Hall
mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx

On 09/04/2014 06:05 PM, Andres Mujica wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We've got an issue with someone who claims to be "Steve Ballmer"
> according to this wiki
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/steveballmer
>
> and this LP
>
> https://launchpad.net/~anthonyba <https://launchpad.net/%7Eanthonyba>
>
> I believe that the user is violating the LP and Ubuntu's wiki usage
> terms, so those entries should be removed or blocked as far as I'm
> concerned.
>
> However, I wasn't able to find the right course of action in this case,
> so I just reported the issue with ubuntu-docs and rt.
>
> Meanwhile I wanted some community insight about how to handle this kind
> of troll.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andrés Mujica
> UCO
>
>
>