Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Case #22 - Guest_MyCareface [ Icelamb's alt account ]

So like any other case here it starts with a new person popping up in the forums who is brand new to imvu but right off the bat finds the forums and starts selling AMAZING premades. 
It should be noted that not everyone new who comes to IMVU forums is automatically a thief but if they are...


1. Selling premades
2. Brand spanking new and have never had a shop before this


It is suspicious and you shouldn't immediately trust them. 
But at the same time you shouldn't immediately condemn them either.


So this is a screenshot of her thread in case she decides to delete it which might happen.


See it for yourself
So like usual we check everything and first things first we can see if we can find anything in the photobucket that is out of place.
As you can see in this picture all these photos have been uploaded with a photobucket account called "AngelSlave01".


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Let's take a look at what's on this photobucket account.
See it for yourself
Oh yes on the first page we see all of the premades that she is selling in her thread..
But wait what's all that other crap could those be her enhancements? 
They look almost NOTHING like her drawings. 


Then we see on page 4 something interesting a credit proof!!
See it for yourself
NOT a credit proof for MyCareFace but for another person, someone named Icelamb.
See for yourself
Well let's take a look at something Icelamb posted.
This is her enhancement for Temporary's request.
See for yourself
Oh look in the "premade" section of her photobucket I found the picture!!

See for yourself
Another coincidence, Icelamb was also the person who bought the premade! 
(as you can see in the screenshot above her other account is proudly displaying the stolen work)

So as you can clearly see MyCareFace equals the same person as Icelamb.

Now on to the premades made by MyCareFace you know what they are? They are the official artwork of the game LOL or League of Legends.

For example this picture.


Is actually Katarina from LOL as you can see on their official webpage the official artwork of the character is what she ripped off of. 
See for yourself
Looking for "Katarina LOL" and "Katarina League of Legends" on google you can find more official artwork pictures of Katarina (as shown below).

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Try it for yourself and see!!

In short, It's a shame that while IceLamb might have started out doing legitimate pictures she wanted quick credits and so she made an alternative account to get those credits by stealing official artwork from a game.

I LOL.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Case #21 - Radiant

There is a user by the name of Radiant who is copy+pasting random parts of photos she finds on Google.
She not only admits to doing it but thinks that it's A-OK!

Here's a screenshot of her current thread in GASR.

See it for yourself
These are the samples of her work!
See it for yourself!
We thought we had the right picture that she pasted on so of course she was PM'd and urged to remove the pictures that she copied+pasted lips that were NOT free to use stock.


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This was her response. 



She doesn't seem to get that whether I had the right picture or not STEALING is still STEALING.

If she likes I can find the original pictures on Google. It's not that much of a bother considering she searched "lips" and took the results on the first page! This only further shows how much time and effort it takes in creating her work.

First we have this one.





By searching "bitting lip" I found the photo she copied+pasted on!
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Then there's this one.



By searching simply "lips" I found the photo (she mirrored the lips though!)
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This is probably true for all of the rest of her pictures.
But I'm too lazy to look and post them. However, she admitted it and that in itself is the best proof!

Nor does she care apparently.
Good luck with business Radiant.