Tag Archives: Unethical Virtual Assistants

Pay What You Owe

December 9, 2010 – 10:00 am

I’ve recently heard from several Virtual Assistants who have been having trouble getting paid from the VAs who engaged them. I hear from folks like this all throughout the year, but more so recently–seems to be an epidemic going on. They’re frustrated, not sure what to do and wonder what I think about it. So [...]

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Virtual Assistant Ethics: What Do You Think?

December 28, 2009 – 10:00 am

I was contacted last week by the owner of a well-regarded training program for Virtual Assistants. The owner is not a Virtual Assistant themselves, but rather is an expert with an extensive background and expertise in the thing they are teaching (exactly as it should be). It had come to this program owner’s attention via [...]

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Unethical Virtual Assistants: Philippines Call Center

December 9, 2009 – 1:00 am

Imagine my surprise to see an article I wrote in 2004 that is well-known throughout our industry published in a release with another person’s name in the byline. Here is a PDF of the screenshot of the release submitted by one “Johnny Law” from Philippines Call Center which contains just about 100% verbatim content from [...]

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Copyright Infringement: Lorean Tuff

August 7, 2009 – 10:00 am

Did my regular monthly plagiarism sweep earlier this week and discovered that a Lorean Tuff has taken whole sections of content from my personal business Home page and placed it on her site here: http://www.myownvirtualassistant.com/Home_Page.html Here’s a PDF of the screenshot taken (note the yellow highlighted parts indicating the infringing use of my copy). Here’s [...]

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Unethical Virtual Assistant: Your Virtual Admin

January 25, 2009 – 8:00 am

Here’s another thief who has stolen, verbatim, my home page text: Your Virtual Admin at http://yourvirtualadmin.blogspot.com/ Here’s my site:  http://www.therelief.com. Here’s a PDF of their blog home page with my stolen content: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/infringements/YourVirtualAdmin/012409Home.pdf This Virtual Assistant’s name is Maria. She was contacted about the infringement to give her a chance to remove it from her [...]

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Laurice L. on oDesk

November 30, 2008 – 9:00 am

Does anyone know someone by the name of Laurice L. who is offering her services as a Virtual Assistant on oDesk.com? She has stolen my “Meet Danielle” text from my personal business site: If you know this Virtual Assistant or have heard of her, please let me know how to get in touch with her. [...]

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Unethical Virtual Assistants: Eva Jane's Professional Remote Office Services

November 8, 2008 – 12:00 am

Did a little CopyScaping tonight and found a few thieves, the first of whom is Janie Matthews of Eva Jane’s Professional Remote Office Services at: http://janie.startlogic.com/evajanes/1701.html This Virtual Assistant stole the entire content from my Home and How It Works pages on my personal business website at www.therelief.com. She also posted the first page of [...]

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New Category: Unethical Virtual Assistants

June 28, 2008 – 10:00 am

I’m starting a new category on my blog here:  Unethical Virtual Assistants. I think most people are inherently honest. I think others sometimes do wrong things out of ignorance or denial, but if they were made to think about it, they would know in their hearts their actions were wrong, and given the chance will [...]

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