#wallpart

It's a cheap domain on a default storefront template running scripts to populate its stock through Tumblr and dA. The reviews are fake, and I'll bet the print-on-demand posters they claim to sell are just run through other services. It doesn't make them money.

You know what does make money?

Selling the personal information of thousands of content creators who scramble to fill out the DMCA form on a shady site.

The DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, is a useful tool on reputable websites to have your content removed. It is a legally binding document, and thus asks for some pretty personal information. Filling it out on a site that is created just to fish for information is dangerous.

Let the site die.

By sharing it as wildly as you are and freaking out over "art theft" that doesn't exist, you are putting. People. At risk. It's a phishing site and a scam.

Stop sending them more victims.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028158352-Reporting-abuse-to-Cloudflare

From: https://www.whoishostingthis.com/#search=www.wallpart.com

“This website masks their IP address using Cloudflare, a popular CDN. That means we don't know the exact host.

If you need to find the host for DMCA, you can contact Cloudflare and they will provide you with the host's contact information.”

If you have evidence that you did not give consent for your items to be posted and sold, contact cloudflare. That 4 year old petition won’t do anything. Get legal if you have to or if you can. 

Also, apologies if you do not know me and are confused why I @ you. I’m (at)-ing anyone I saw in the original post. I will miss people. Send the report abuse to anyone you know who has art up on that horrid website. Alas, I’m not an artist so there’s nothing of me up there otherwise I’d be taking them to court in a heart beat. 

@spacelingart @the-sith-in-the-sky-with-diamond @angelsaxis @meektheraccoon @transaurus @smudgeandfrank 

It starts with Cloudflare. If they’re willing to cooperate and hand over the hosting site, demand it be taken down or take them to court.  

Edit: Found out the asses behind this horrible website are supposedly in Russia so suing or taking this to court would be exceedingly difficult. 

Edit again: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ

Quick FYI I’m also Sayrihaamberstar but my phone, for some strange reason, swaps randomly between my two accounts. For the moment I’ll just post this on this account.

After reading the article Nusaran linked  (Reposting link here, thank you @nusaran for originally finding and linking it! PLEASE READ IT if you are having issues with the wallpart website) https://fstoppers.com/news/website-will-steal-your-photos-and-then-hack-your-computer-77511

I decided to do some light digging and found this: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Reporting+Malicious+Websites+in+2018/23892/

I found this to be pretty helpful when it comes to reporting malicious websites. The only issue I found is this (Quoting from website): “Engaging Law Enforcement - If you also want to report the activity to law enforcement, I recommend the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx)  Reports will be correlated and used to build larger cases.”

I’m all for it but this seems to pertain to US citizens only. I’m unsure of where others might be able to send in something to engage law enforcement for other countries. I’m asking for anyone who’s NOT a US Citizen to take a look around and link websites similar to the above FBI link. Personally I find the more noise is made the more hassle it will be to keep a malicious website up. Sadly, they’re just going to bounce their host around and try to keep afloat. Keep reporting them and see if your government has a place to report malicious websites.

“The contact form is a phishing platform that is used to spam the user and potentially infect their computer with malware and who knows what other nasty adware and spyware.   “Throughout the website's existence, much of the functionality, search results, and contact forms have changed.  One day you can search for your name and find stolen images only to search 24 hours later and find the results page completely empty.  It's clear the site was never meant to run as a business and the functionality of it as a whole is pretty broken.  The site is currently hosted in Russia and has been known to change hosting domains in the past after being outed by tech savvy visitors.

“It is pretty sad to know that their are websites and companies out there like WallPart preying on photographers who are simply trying to protect and maintain the copyright on their own creations.  In today's world we can never be too sure where an email or contact form is actually sending or what personal data is being sent to a company in general.  In the case of The Poster Shop and other sites that are sure to follow, DO NOT VISIT THE SITE and give it traffic and by all means DO NOT FILL OUT ANY COPYRIGHT VIOLATION OR DMCA FORMS.  The website Change.org has started a petition to remove WallPart with over 50,000 supporters but there is no telling if the site will actually ever be banned forever.”

the sole purpose of WallPart/ThePosterStore- isn't to sell prints at all 

no sales are happening

it’s to target photographers/ artists who are featured on the WP website.

WP knows creators freak when their images are used w/o permission;  

so they go to the site to find their work

they’ll attempt to issue a cease and desist through WallPart's DMCA/Copyright link at the bottom   

that link’s one of the only clickable links on the entire page   

the contact form is the whole purpose of WP’s website.  

it’s a phishing platform 

used to spam and infect the users computer with malware, adware and other types of spyware.  

it’s currently hosted in Russia but changed domains multiple times.

WallPart is preying on artists and photographers 

who are trying to protect and maintain copyright of their creations.  

remember-you can never be sure where an email or contact form is actually going or what personal data is being sent

http://wallpart.com/