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Please help, someone stolen my game to distribute malware

A topic by Hooldrafolk created 40 days ago Views: 143 Replies: 4
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Hi to all, I received this review:

your game has been stolen and your profile image has been used on the fake account to distribute malware with your stolen game. and other games. see tender-troupe.itch.io

(i will remove the rating in a few days. your game is on my backlog, but i will not play it for quite a while. unless itch acts very fast this time, the scam account will be up for a few days.)

What I have to do? Sorry I'm new to these kind of things, but now I'm worried.

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If you find a pirated copy of your game on itch.io, please report it using the link in the page footer so that staff can check. Thanks.

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Why are you worried. It is not you that is getting hacked right and left. Itch should be ashamed. The reaction time to reports is very bad. You did report it, did ya. The scam is still up and your post ist 3 hours old. The fake game is not even quarantined. Anyone getting a direct link to this has no reason to be suspicous. The scam account is still indexed, but some games on it might not.

https://itch.io/t/3512426/itch-is-not-a-safe-place-do-not-download-things

https://itch.io/t/1659440/psa-beware-the-try-my-game-scam

I'm worried because I don't want that my game is associated with these scams, and he copied my game AND my profile picture. Why he's on me? He have other 3 games but I don't know what they are.

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Why he's on me?

That is not so. There are thousands of malware uploaded to itch. Your case is not anything special. I hope most of them were taken down. But there is basically not single week you will not find malware if you keep your eyes open. I spoke from experience, when I told you in the other thread, that this will happen or already has happened. Some mistake it for software piracy. Those exist too, but usually it is malware. 

That psa about the discord scams is not outdated. It is still ongoing. The criminals try different variations and why spam people on discord where they are constantly warned not to trust people, if they simply can upload in the open and wait for unsuspecting users to download.