Plagiarist!!

**EDIT** THE USER AND HIS STORIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM VOCAL

It has come to my attention that we have another serial plagiarist. Michelle first reported it in our plagiarism group chat on Facebook Messenger this morning when she noticed one of her stories had been stolen by this user. We immediately went into action.

We combed through his stories and found over 20 stories that this user has plagiarized from other users. Plus, he also has many, ever so many, undeclared AI-generated stories. I'll spend the next day or so reporting on him, but I wanted to do a write-up and warn everyone to look for their work among his list of stories first.

The user who stole stories from over 20 different creators is Imran Badshah. You can find him on Vocal at the link below.

Below, I will list the stories I know to be stolen. The plagiarized stories were glaringly obvious to me as soon as I saw them. I will label which ones are the stolen work and which are the original pieces. Please, check out all his stories, though, and make sure none are any of yours. I may overlook some. This thief is really prolific and unimaginative. He seems to have chosen Top Stories from June and July to copy from.

I know how much this sux, but we have to be vigilant as writers. We may not like it, but it is a fact of life in this digital age. As always, we plagiarism warriors will watch where we can.

I will be going through more of Imran's work tomorrow and reporting all his undeclared AI-generated pieces to Vocal. There were several pieces that I was sure were AI instead of plagiarized. This is not surprising to me; I've found that most of the ones who use undeclared AI have no qualms with the other.

You can find the form at the bottom of Thieves! At it Again! to report any plagiarism you may find on Vocal.

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Original by Michelle:

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Original by Margaret:

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Original posted on Medium by River Joy and Celia:

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The original written by Paul:

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Original by Ian:

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Original written by Iris:

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Original written by C.R.

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Stolen Twice:

Original by Mikey:

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Original written by AJ

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Original written by Rachel:

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Original written by Raif:

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Original written by Cathy:

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Original written by Tom:

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Original written by Lark:

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Published on Medium by Conor:

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Original written by Michael:

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Original written by Caroline:

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Original written by Belle:

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Original written by Rasma:

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Original written by Natasja:

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Original written by Tina:

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Original written by Stephanie:

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Original written by Alexandria:

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Original by Asim: