What To Do About Someone Copying My Site?

**MJM** · 11 April 2019, 9:59 am

I own https://www.bettingusa.com - today I noticed this site PointsBets.com - check it out, they are using my design, aff links, etc - I don't get why they are even doing it, but what can/should I do about it?

**PromoteCasino** · 11 April 2019, 10:11 am

I see PointsBet but it does not look like yours it appears as a betting platform of some sorts

**MJM** · 11 April 2019, 10:26 am

Sorry my mistake - PointsBet.com is a NJ sportsbook - PointsBets.com is the infringer here. Add an S.

**MJM** · 11 April 2019, 10:51 am

It's an RU host so I'm not sure if they will honor a DMCA - I emailed PointsBet to let them know about the domain/trademark infringement - but what REALLY has me weirded out here is that when I go to this url (PointsBets.com) because I'm logged into my site (BettingUSA) I see the wordpress/admin bar up top and can access the entire backend!!! Never seen such a thing.

**PromoteCasino** · 11 April 2019, 11:17 am

That is very weird. It seems quite clear that your WP site has been hacked and may be worth checking with a site like Sucuri. Do you have Wordfence on your site if so I would run a scan and see if something had been injected.

Just checked on https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results...bettingusa.com and there are some issues which you could look at (outdated software etc).

Wordfence is very good at blocking most things

I had something similar on a previous site a complete clone (hosted in China) and only noticed when I saw a small icon at the base of my webpage. Somehow they had hacked the code, the guy who was hosting at that time managed to get rid of the code and set up new security protocols to stop it happening again.

My memory is not as good as it used to be but I believe I did submit a DMCA to to get rid of the pages that were indexed.

**baldidiot** · 11 April 2019, 11:37 am

It's just loading a page on your site in an iframe - go check the source code: view-source:http://pointsbets.com/

No idea why they're doing this as the whole thing is your site. Perhaps they're trying to get you in trouble with PointBet as the domain will show your trackers and content? Who knows...

Just block the iframe from loading and you'll be all fixed.

**MJM** · 11 April 2019, 11:49 am

Originally Posted by baldidiot

Just block the iframe from loading and you'll be all fixed.

How do I do that? Any idea?

**baldidiot** · 11 April 2019, 11:53 am

Originally Posted by MJM

How do I do that? Any idea?

Javascript mainly.

There's also apparently a security policy you can use on modern browsers, although I've not tried that myself:

Code:

Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'none';

See here, there are a few solutions to try https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...rame-of-iframe

**MJM** · 11 April 2019, 12:01 pm

Thanks! I'll ask my host for help I suppose, I'm not very technical

I agree it's SUPER odd that someone is doing this.

**Sherlock** · 11 April 2019, 1:17 pm

Asking a host is like nuking an ant. I remember it was maybe just one row in code to block iframes.

**Malikbhai** · 11 April 2019, 3:33 pm

Code:

<body><iframename="site"id="site"width="100%"height="100%"frameborder="0"marginheight="0"marginwidth="0"src="https://www.bettingusa.com/reviews/pointsbet/"></iframe></body>

1- Disable iframes.

2- Don't worry about google. Even if it were copied without the iframes. It wouldn't rank.

**GlitzyBingo** · 11 April 2019, 5:01 pm

This happend to me the other week. They was using clever code to clone my site. Blocking iframes didn't work but I changed a few lines in htaccess to prevent pages being links and images loading. Did an advanced whois to see who owned the site and reported to the host of the website and google as a DMCA report. It was taken down within a few days.

**wonderpunter** · 12 April 2019, 3:21 pm

DMCA to google, its actually pretty quick..

**Strider1973** · 18 April 2019, 9:30 am

I see it's no longer hosted there, so you were successful. Did you actually file a DMCA complaint to their webhost or do you think it was enough to just email the webmaster (which I doubt)?

**MJM** · 18 April 2019, 11:03 am

I contacted PointsBet.com who own the trademark and looks like they handled it swiftly. I appreciate everyones quick replies! I learned a few things from this thread.

**gil.langelaan** · 18 April 2019, 7:10 pm

You got the copycat down so fast? Wow

**notoldgambler** · 19 April 2019, 10:20 am

Just checked both sites. Pointsbets.com is now 404/site not found.

**BettingBoss** · 21 April 2019, 3:11 am

Wow - interesting to follow this.

Such a strange move to copy a website fully.

**BettingBoss** · 21 April 2019, 3:12 am

I'm aware of people having similar themes, but not exactly.

**Former Member 14** · 21 April 2019, 3:44 am

Originally Posted by BettingBoss

Such a strange move to copy a website fully.

The site wasn't copied. It was pulled into an iframe....

Thread: What To Do About Someone Copying My Site?

LinkBack

Thread Tools

Search Thread

Display

What To Do About Someone Copying My Site?

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to baldidiot For This Useful Post:

The Following User Says Thank You to baldidiot For This Useful Post:

The Following User Says Thank You to MJM For This Useful Post:

Posting Permissions