Which is the Real Creative Mary?

The HIVE hardfork created an opportunity for identity theft. People who were on SteemIt before the hardfork have accounts on Hive.blog and blurt.blog.

I encountered a sad case in which the Creative Mary on HIVE claims that someone has been using her images and her face to make money with the @creativemary account on STEEM.

The HIVE account was created 23 moons ago:

https://hiveblocks.com/@creativemary

The STEEM account was created 19 moons ago.

https://steemd.com/@creativemary

SteemD says the account received 154,014 posting rewards. I think that means 626 STEEM.

The STEEM account is using images from the HIVE account. So, this is not just name squatting. It is actual plagiarism.

I am not a big fan of downvoting, but I encourage it in cased of identity theft. The downvote strip the offending account of rewards and reputations. The account has about $60 in outstanding rewards that should be down voted.

I am sad that this type of thing happens. This is what the DV is for.

The Need to Create Accounts on HIVE and Blurt

This identity theft brings up a problem created by the hard fork. Everyone who was using STEEM before the hard fork has accounts on BLURT and HIVE.

Scammers are known to create HIVE accounts for STEEM users and STEEM accounts for HIVE users just to create confusion.

Because there is so much cross over between the two platforms, it is probably smart for STEEM users to create HIVE accounts and HIVE users to create STEEM accounts just to avoid the possibility of identity theft.

Quite frankly, I am surprised that the two platforms don't search both blockchains in the account creation process.