I'm in the USA. A twenty-something guy in Russia has listed himself as my (LONG DEAD) brother & built a large family tree from that, taking information & photos I had on Wiki Tree. Very creepy. I would like all this deleted, but I have no way to contact whoever runs this site GENI unless I pay for a membership.
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Jeff, Geni Curator Pauline, I'll report him to customer service for investigation. For now, I've merged your small tree with that tree so you have permission to those profiles due to the family group. You can go to the action tab of the profiles of that family and remove him as a manager.
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Pauline Foreman Jeff, I have now gotten this message from Evgeny Tereschenko to my email address. "Здравствуйте, Pauline!
Евгений Владимирович Терещенко сделал вас менеджером Jackie D. Reuland.
Открыть профиль Jackie D. Reuland:
https://www.geni.com/c/86c7931142c712d0f1a370ed18ed2b550feea7c9
С уважением,
- Команда Geni" Because I cannot see any innocent reason for him to pretend to be my brother & enter several hundred people on my relatives to a tree on Geni that he copied from Wiki Tree, I believe he may be trying to hack my computer or personal information. Is there anyway your company can lock him out of this? The fact that he can misrepresent himself & input that much bogus information is quite unsettling. I would like to delete everything about my family on this site, but need assurance this won't happen again. -
Jeff, Geni Curator Pauline, This was sent through the Geni message system automatically, not through email directly. Also, I don't see that he is pretending to be your brother - at least not in the tree. You don't even have a brother listed in the tree. Why do you believe he is pretending to be your brother? Is he using his picture?
As of yet, while it's odd and perhaps unsettling, I don't see that he's done anything wrong from a policy perspective. He's copied public information from another online tree. If something is bogus, then we should correct it, but if someone wants to build out a tree, they're welcome to do so. I help people and family members build out trees all the time that are completely unrelated. But I admit that it is weird - I guess the question is, has he done anything other than build out a family tree? Some people get really excited to build the puzzle.
As for deleting information, I would not recommend doing that. I did not connect you in so that you could vandalize the tree. I connected you in so that you could manage it and maintain privacy around your living family. I also would not set ancestor profiles born in 1850 as private as I noticed. Privacy settings on the profiles are intended to protect the family of living people, which doesn't usually apply to profiles that far back.
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