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mare:
Here's a little story for everyone...

Once upon a time, Tonja decided to join the AC forum  ??? I know.... go figure? Just in case you don't know who we are talking about. She's the one who constantly steals other people's work. Taking credit for it, not owning up to it...then when found out, she goes into hiding only to turn up somewhere else and do it all over again. Tonja decided to make this one of her homes. She might have done this for several different reasons.

Reason 1. She was bored and felt like she needed some adventure in her life.
Reason 2. She thought we were all morons and wouldn't figure it out.
Reason 3. She just thought this looked like a nice place to hang not having ANY idea she was entering the lion's den.

Whatever the case, she joined and we sat and waited for the right opportunity to call her out. Just like we predicted, within the first week, she started to post stories that were not her own. Maybe it was crisis of conscience or perhaps she realized we were serious about catching plagairists, but she stopped doing that on here. However, her copycat antics haven't stopped at all.

Her SN on this and a few other forums is LuckyMe aka Jess. I know, she seems like a wonderful girl. She might be...who knows? But she is the ever elusive Tonja. The same one who has stolen all of the stories below...Read the list in amazement people. Julie was nice enough to compile this list for us. Just take a second, heck...you might even be on it! if you are SURPRISE!! And welcome to the club.  :-[

http://www.dreamers-sanctuary.com/tanja.html

The reason I decided to out her tonight, is because once again she's at it. This time she's resorting to use her twitter account to garner false praise. Her twitter SN is LuckyBailey. Please know anything this girl posts is not her own work. She shouldn't be allowed to get away with it anymore.

I know for a fact that lots of people come to this forum and will see this. Some of you might be friends with 'Jess'. That's great, but if you condone this kind of behavior, she'll never change. She doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. That's apparent by the MANY times she has been confronted on the issue.

So, 'Jess' we know it's you. I'm sure you know that. But be aware that EVERYONE will know it's you. We are going to send this list with your SN/IP address to all the forums we know including that stupid I heart horses one...what was the name of that one guys? lol

Games up! You're out!

RokofAges75:
It is freaking RIDICULOUS that this girl has plagiarized AT LEAST 67 times THAT WE KNOW OF to date.  There may be many others on other forums, in other fandoms, that we haven't discovered yet.  She's long since moved on to other fandoms from Bsb, including Supernatural, Twilight, High School Musical... the list goes on.

I think it would be great if you guys spread the word on this girl to other fanfic sites you go to, other forums you post on, Twitter, everywhere!  Tanja's pattern is that she waits until she's called out somewhere, and then she disappears for awhile, and then she moves on to another forum or comes back to the SAME forum with a different screen name, and starts the whole plagiarizing process all over again!  She never seems to learn.  If we could spread the word to places she's been before or places she might go, we could catch her and stop her quicker.  And for the love of god, don't inadvertantly support this behavior by befriending her or giving her feedback on stolen work.  If you've been duped into doing so, let her know you're onto her and what you think about what she's doing.

If you do spread the word to other sites and forums, let us know which ones so we can see if there's any place we think of that hasn't been covered yet.

Thanks for helping the cause!

Rose:
What Julie said! lol.

LD is covered though.
http://talk.livedaily.com/showthread.php?t=667576

cabybakes:
Holy crap....67 times?!?!?!

Rose:
Yep, it's ridiculous right?  >:(

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