I had the same thing happen. I did as the others have suggested, I wrote a nice letter and waited a day. Then I wrote a not so nice letter letting them know that I was going to report them.
What got the quickest results was letting them know that I could easily write an article about the way they do business. Armed with their URL it would be easy to rank on the same page as them and trash their site. Took about 3 hrs for them to add my bio

I would not let it bother you. Just check to see many backlinks that they have to that particular page, top it, and then move on.

I would let it bother you. Just check to see many backlinks that they have to that particular page, top it, and then move on.

I had this problem once and someone gave me a tip that has helped ever since. What I do now is always include the actual url as anchor text in the body of the article rather than in the resource box. These parasites have one thing that works to our advantage, which is that they are lazy. They won't bother to read your article or make changes to the body. So your reader will always have your physical url, even if no links. Hope this helps.

I'd follow the advice below as well. It's one thing to add valuable to content to a site but leaving the original credits in place. It's another thing entirely to get away with being a blatant ****** and stealing somebody else's work so you can get paid wihout putting any effort in. Bad form! Good Luck yarddog :)

You have every right to be ticked off and i agree with the others comments...expose the boogers for what they are in any way you can....the experience will make a great article too. Let us know what happens, wish you a great day

You say this is not the first time this has happened, and I have heard similar things have happened to others as well.

So what do these parasites do copy your work and submit it to another article publisher? Certainly they could not use the same publishing house, it seems that would set off all kinds of red flags.

The brazen audacity it takes to do something like that is beyond me,and then to be so arrogant as to think the original author would not be checking up on his/her work to me suggest a formal letter of intent to take action, although I realize you must do so, would be ignored.

I know one thing for sure I would NOT let it go. I would do my best to make an example out of that person that would send a very clear message PLAGIARISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED !!!

Sorry about the caps, But who ever did that has made me angry for you,

Wes

I agree with both comments. I would write to the offending party first, with a time limit of a day. If nothing is done, blow the whistle. Someone just used one of my articles from EZA, resource box intact, but they scrambled the article so that it makes no sense. I wrote them about it. Need to check on that too. Nutty people out there.

After the "polite letter" I would go right to ArticleBase and drop dime on the guy (gal). That's b.s. Don't let them steal YOUR efforts.

Grr. Now I have to retype my reply cause my login expired while I was typing the first time.
I would think that a polite letter to the perp should be your first course of action. The rules are quite clear you need to get credit for your work. Competing against yourself is not cool. If they do not comply then a stronger letter indicating that you will take action to have them censured should be the response. Congratulations on your rankings!