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Started a SMM business and I'm being anonymously threatened and attacked by another company
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I never post things like this but I need your thoughts on this topic.
I am one person who started a website selling my social media services. Beforehand, I googled the brand name I was going to use. There were only agencies that had similar names to mine but no exact names.
Things got hard so I took a backseat to focus on other clients ect. My website was still up then a couple months later I received multiple threats on LinkedIn from an anonymous account named "John" (I cannot remember the surname as this happened so quickly).
This account had 0 connections but had a company listed on the profile. The messages that were sent were truly vile and this person attacked everything from the university I attended to my website design. They even claimed that it was a "joke" to call myself a business person.
Most of all, the person tried to make threats over "copyright infringement" despite the fact the names are not the exact same and this company being based in another country (My agency name has "UK" in it). And as mentioned earlier, there are so many agencies on Google search with similar names and that same keyword.
Weirdly enough, more messages flooded through which were censored and the account disappeared before I could give a response. So I reached out to the company listed and they denied it.
I tried to reason with them professionally and raise the issue that someone may be posing as an employer under the company and I get this unprofessional response:
"There is no JOHN at our company".
Am I in my rights and am I just being trolled? I put a ton of work into my website and refuse to back down. But in the mean time, I'm staying off LinkedIn.
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June 21, 2020 at 12:46PM