Fraud A-Foot

[Bonehead]

I knew you had to look at a post with that title. As you guys know I check in on a bunch of forums. One of them is a fabrication forum.
It seems that a person (I think a 19 year old) was taking welding pictures that had been posted on that site, and posting them on several other sites claiming the work as his own. Beautiful work from seasoned pros. What is the most interesting is that when the guys who found out about their work being claimed by another they were not too upset. Other people on the forum became pretty POed, but not these old hardcore fabricators. The guy who claimed the work as his own also had gone on and on about his background and gave bad advice. When he was caught he just laughed it off, but alot of guys are pretty much up in arms with him.
The internet is a wonderful tool, and a fun place to hang out, but it just goes to show you.... you can't always believe what you read.

 

[Gastrick]

I'd venture to say that there are plenty of these fraudulant claimants of other's work around the internet. I would rather ask and learn than not know how and boast about work that I did not complete. The sad part about the story is that people were seeking advice and were given bad information by the bogus poster.

 

[eugene vik]

advice

seems to me like a lot are so lost that they cant follow the advice anyhou, some just dont have the background to understand.. also some have never made as many mistakes as some of the more seasoned people.. we dont know more , just ruined a lot of stuff and never forgot

 

[Unkl Ian]

Bad advice is common online,but also common in real life.
Some are just Parrots,repeating someone else's BS,thinking it is real.

Saw some genius make a bold statement of fact on another board.
He had all the facts,but they were all backwards.

Or someone will know enough to ask an intelligent question,
and the first 6 replies give the same wrong answer.

Sometimes i just give up.
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Presenting someone else's work as your own is just plain wrong.

Being inspired by someone else's work is fine,
to rip it off completely is no different than stealing their TV.
"Imitation" is not flattering,it is theft.

 

[Bonehead]

Here is one of several stolen pictures

 

[Bonehead]

Here is another from ZTFAB, the real welder.

 

[donsrods]

Ok, ya caught me. I'm really a 13 year old kid living in Bangladesh, and my Dad is a goat farmer!!


There was a guy who came on the HAMB and posted a bunch of pictures he said were old ones. One picture was of an "old roadster that was stolen in something like 1957 and NEVER SEEN SINCE." Well, someone noticed a late model Dodge Ram truck in the background and cried foul. Same deal, the guy just tried arguing his way out of it, and eventually went off to bother some other forum.

It will be nice when they invent that machine that allows us to reach through the computer and grab these little twerps by the throat.

That fab work is really spectacular BTW.

Don

 

[bob w]

I've got a channeled, fenderless '31 A sedan. It has a white vinyl top that is poorly installed. Whenever anyone looks at it I tell them the idiot that installed the top didn't know what he was doing. I don't tell them it was me! So, I guess I'm a fraud, maybe a reverse fraud, ay?

 

[Bonehead]

I have used that one before. I had a guy come put stucco on a wall I built, because the work I did was really crude. He was looking at my work, and shaking his head, I said, "the guy who put this on was an amature".

 

[24dodge]

Here is another from ZTFAB, the real welder.

that is beautiful work.

 

[metalmaster1766]

Here is another from ZTFAB, the real welder.

yes that is a beautiful weld, i so wish i could weld like that

thing is, every time i tried to lie as a kid, i was caught, so i learned young,
if i tried to pass a weld like that off as mine, someone would want me to weld something for them, be a dead give away im a faud

Ron

 

[Mr.Gussett]

Lies on the net.

Like Brad Pasley sings "I'm so much cooler on line"
You can be anyone you want to be on the net!