Yasu09 on india-forums.com
The following story may have been plagiarized by user yasu09 (can't gain access to profile since I'm not a member) on www.india-forums.com:
Mafias are Good at Keeping Secrets by stephy151: http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1281635&TPN=2.
(Note: This girl claims on the first page of the thread (link: http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1281635) that the concept of the story was "inspired" by another story, but she has taken MANY phrases WORD FOR WORD from stephy151's original piece. And, many phrases that aren't word for word are simply re-worded a little so that they are slightly different. She has also changed the POV from first to third and the names have also been changed (and she does use some foreign language that I am not all that familiar with). She has also shortened the chapters as well. She only has 14 plus an epilogue while stephy151 has 21 chapters and an epilogue. Lastly, the title has been changed from "Mafias are Good at Keeping Secrets" to just "The Mafia"). I didn't get a chance to look at every chapter since it;s late, but the ones I did look at showcased everything that I just mentioned above to such a degree that I think the rest of the chapters will probably be just the same.
It's not a word for word copy, but the whole idea and many of the phrases within the piece are WAY too similar to stephy15's original piece to be anything more than plagiarism. She may have been a little bit too inspired by the original piece.
I have contacted stephy151 about this and am waiting for a reply. Stephy151 has replied to my PM and is in the process of contacting the site to get this story removed.
EDIT: I also found a thread to all of this girl's writing (link: http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1277848), there is another piece that she has written that she claims is inspired by another story. I have a feeling that it's probably mostly the other story with her few changes added like this one. Here's the link to it: http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1335679 . It doesn't look familiar to me, so that's why I'm posting it in the hopes that someone recognizes the idea and can point me to the story that she was inspired by. I've looked at most of her other stuff, but it's really hard to figure out if it's hers or not.
EDIT 2: Well, it looks like most of her stuff isn't hers either... no surprise there. Most of these are word for word copies, but a few are paraphrased (with some word for word phrases thrown in). However, she has changed titles and the names to suit the fandom that she's writing them for. This girl has been VERY busy with the copy/paste function on her computer.
**Her oneshot Moments in the Rain is a Harry Potter oneshot that can be found over on fanfiction.net under the title "Kisses in the Rain" by xlilyx : www.fanfiction.net/s/3893537/1/Kisses_in_the_rain
**Her oneshot Distraction is a Harry Potter oneshot that can be found over on Mugglenet's fanfiction under the title "How He Knew" by A House Elf: fanfiction.mugglenet.com/viewstory.php
**Her oneshot Roses is a Harry Potter oneshot that can once again be found over on fanfiction.net under the title "A Lavender Rose" written by SiriuslylvnSirius25: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4386899/1/A_Lavender_Rose
**Her story Prem's Arrogance is a Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on fanfiction.net under the title "Arrogance and Ignorance" by AnneM.Oliver : http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4218150/1/bArrogance_b_and_bIgnorance_b
**Her story Chef Heeriy is also another plagiarized Fictionpress story that can be found over on Fictionpress under the title "A Sweet Inducement" by Clavel: www.fictionpress.com/s/2093812/1/ (EDIT: THIS STORY HAS BEEN REMOVED)
**Her story Pirates is also another plagiarized Harry potter fanfiction that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "A Pirates True Treasure" by tastetherain: www.fanfiction.net/s/2580843/1/A_Pirates_True_Treasure (EDIT: THIS STORY HAS BEEN REMOVED)
**Her oneshot The Wedding is yet another plagiarized Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "His Lady" by Dragon Lady Prankster : http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2889018/1/His_Lady
**Her oneshot I love showers is a a shortened, plagiarized and paraphrased version of a Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on harrypotterfanfiction.net under the title "Over My Head" by The Forgotten Muse : harrypotterfanfiction.com/viewstory.php
**Her oneshot Romance on the lift is a Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "Love in An Elevator" by dracosgem : www.fanfiction.net/s/4565942/1/bLove_b_In_An_bElevator_b
**Her sequel to Romance on the lift is a another Harry potter fanfiction that can be found on Mugglenet Fanfction under the title "Rekindled Love" by SK witch: fanfiction.mugglenet.com/viewstory.php
**Her oneshot The Firefighter 1, 2 and 3 are plagiarized from what I think is a publishing agency; it's a story written by a published author who has posted some stuff to read for free (at least I think that is what it is). The original story is called "Hot Flash" by Donna Kauffman: www.millsandboon.co.uk/onlinereads/Hot-Flash-chapter2.htm (Note: she has copied chapters two, three and four only)
**Her oneshot Sanraj Oneshot and During a Game of Cards is two different versions of another Harry Potter fanfiction (all she has done is change the names for each story to match the ship) that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "Five Minutes" by iluvpottering : http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2306973/1/Five_Minutes
**Her oneshot Love Problems is another Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "Heaven Forbid" by Evanescent17 : www.fanfiction.net/s/4468906/1/Heaven_Forbid
This plagiarism concerns the works of the following FictionPress users:
stephy151
Clavel
This plagiarism also concerns the works of these Fanfiction authors:
xlilyx
A House Elf
SiriuslylvnSirius25
AnneM.Oliver
tastetherain
Dragon Lady Prankster
The Forgotten Muse
dracosgem
iluvpottering
SK witch
Evanescent17
To say that I'm appalled at the many different people this girl has plagiarized would be an understatement... I am so disgusted by the fact that she has stolen stuff from at least THIRTEEN different people!! Obviously, she has NO shame and no creative bone in her body either. Some of her stories I couldn't find anything on Google, but I have a feeling that she might have paraphrased so much that the originals would be hard to find.
I think I might have missed a few, but that site is extremely hard to navigate so I tried. I'm now going to start the LONG process of informing every single one of these authors about this.
This is by the far the WORST case of individual plagiarism that I have EVER seen.
Also, can i just say how disgusted I am by the sudden influx of plagiarism?!? I was quite excited to discover that this group hadn't been active lately and within four days, there are NINE posts of multiple plagiarism?!?! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!
EDIT 3: The site has taken action and have closed ALL this girl's threads. However, I would think it would be better if they actually MADE her remove the stories or removed them for her since it doesn't do much good if the topic is only closed since people can still read the story under someone else's name...
Mafias are Good at Keeping Secrets by stephy151: http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1281635&TPN=2.
(Note: This girl claims on the first page of the thread (link: http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1281635) that the concept of the story was "inspired" by another story, but she has taken MANY phrases WORD FOR WORD from stephy151's original piece. And, many phrases that aren't word for word are simply re-worded a little so that they are slightly different. She has also changed the POV from first to third and the names have also been changed (and she does use some foreign language that I am not all that familiar with). She has also shortened the chapters as well. She only has 14 plus an epilogue while stephy151 has 21 chapters and an epilogue. Lastly, the title has been changed from "Mafias are Good at Keeping Secrets" to just "The Mafia"). I didn't get a chance to look at every chapter since it;s late, but the ones I did look at showcased everything that I just mentioned above to such a degree that I think the rest of the chapters will probably be just the same.
It's not a word for word copy, but the whole idea and many of the phrases within the piece are WAY too similar to stephy15's original piece to be anything more than plagiarism. She may have been a little bit too inspired by the original piece.
I have contacted stephy151 about this and am waiting for a reply. Stephy151 has replied to my PM and is in the process of contacting the site to get this story removed.
EDIT: I also found a thread to all of this girl's writing (link: http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1277848), there is another piece that she has written that she claims is inspired by another story. I have a feeling that it's probably mostly the other story with her few changes added like this one. Here's the link to it: http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1335679 . It doesn't look familiar to me, so that's why I'm posting it in the hopes that someone recognizes the idea and can point me to the story that she was inspired by. I've looked at most of her other stuff, but it's really hard to figure out if it's hers or not.
EDIT 2: Well, it looks like most of her stuff isn't hers either... no surprise there. Most of these are word for word copies, but a few are paraphrased (with some word for word phrases thrown in). However, she has changed titles and the names to suit the fandom that she's writing them for. This girl has been VERY busy with the copy/paste function on her computer.
**Her oneshot Moments in the Rain is a Harry Potter oneshot that can be found over on fanfiction.net under the title "Kisses in the Rain" by xlilyx : www.fanfiction.net/s/3893537/1/Kisses_in_the_rain
**Her oneshot Distraction is a Harry Potter oneshot that can be found over on Mugglenet's fanfiction under the title "How He Knew" by A House Elf: fanfiction.mugglenet.com/viewstory.php
**Her oneshot Roses is a Harry Potter oneshot that can once again be found over on fanfiction.net under the title "A Lavender Rose" written by SiriuslylvnSirius25: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4386899/1/A_Lavender_Rose
**Her story Prem's Arrogance is a Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on fanfiction.net under the title "Arrogance and Ignorance" by AnneM.Oliver : http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4218150/1/bArrogance_b_and_bIgnorance_b
**Her story Chef Heeriy is also another plagiarized Fictionpress story that can be found over on Fictionpress under the title "A Sweet Inducement" by Clavel: www.fictionpress.com/s/2093812/1/ (EDIT: THIS STORY HAS BEEN REMOVED)
**Her story Pirates is also another plagiarized Harry potter fanfiction that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "A Pirates True Treasure" by tastetherain: www.fanfiction.net/s/2580843/1/A_Pirates_True_Treasure (EDIT: THIS STORY HAS BEEN REMOVED)
**Her oneshot The Wedding is yet another plagiarized Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "His Lady" by Dragon Lady Prankster : http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2889018/1/His_Lady
**Her oneshot I love showers is a a shortened, plagiarized and paraphrased version of a Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on harrypotterfanfiction.net under the title "Over My Head" by The Forgotten Muse : harrypotterfanfiction.com/viewstory.php
**Her oneshot Romance on the lift is a Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "Love in An Elevator" by dracosgem : www.fanfiction.net/s/4565942/1/bLove_b_In_An_bElevator_b
**Her sequel to Romance on the lift is a another Harry potter fanfiction that can be found on Mugglenet Fanfction under the title "Rekindled Love" by SK witch: fanfiction.mugglenet.com/viewstory.php
**Her oneshot The Firefighter 1, 2 and 3 are plagiarized from what I think is a publishing agency; it's a story written by a published author who has posted some stuff to read for free (at least I think that is what it is). The original story is called "Hot Flash" by Donna Kauffman: www.millsandboon.co.uk/onlinereads/Hot-Flash-chapter2.htm (Note: she has copied chapters two, three and four only)
**Her oneshot Sanraj Oneshot and During a Game of Cards is two different versions of another Harry Potter fanfiction (all she has done is change the names for each story to match the ship) that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "Five Minutes" by iluvpottering : http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2306973/1/Five_Minutes
**Her oneshot Love Problems is another Harry Potter fanfiction that can be found over on Fanfiction.net under the title "Heaven Forbid" by Evanescent17 : www.fanfiction.net/s/4468906/1/Heaven_Forbid
This plagiarism concerns the works of the following FictionPress users:
stephy151
Clavel
This plagiarism also concerns the works of these Fanfiction authors:
xlilyx
A House Elf
SiriuslylvnSirius25
AnneM.Oliver
tastetherain
Dragon Lady Prankster
The Forgotten Muse
dracosgem
iluvpottering
SK witch
Evanescent17
To say that I'm appalled at the many different people this girl has plagiarized would be an understatement... I am so disgusted by the fact that she has stolen stuff from at least THIRTEEN different people!! Obviously, she has NO shame and no creative bone in her body either. Some of her stories I couldn't find anything on Google, but I have a feeling that she might have paraphrased so much that the originals would be hard to find.
I think I might have missed a few, but that site is extremely hard to navigate so I tried. I'm now going to start the LONG process of informing every single one of these authors about this.
This is by the far the WORST case of individual plagiarism that I have EVER seen.
Also, can i just say how disgusted I am by the sudden influx of plagiarism?!? I was quite excited to discover that this group hadn't been active lately and within four days, there are NINE posts of multiple plagiarism?!?! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!
EDIT 3: The site has taken action and have closed ALL this girl's threads. However, I would think it would be better if they actually MADE her remove the stories or removed them for her since it doesn't do much good if the topic is only closed since people can still read the story under someone else's name...