January 26th, 2014 at 04:23am
I had the exact same thing happen to me - two of my stories were being posted on Wattpad without my permission, by two separate users. And it had happened some two or three years before I managed to find them. (This is actually how I found Wattpad.)
I reported both, of course. One user was inactive and the story was removed very quickly. The other was an active account, and I noticed that the story was not taken down right away (despite the fact that I provided proof that I wrote the story back in 2004!) I sent the user a polite message explaining that I didn't appreciate having my work reposted, that it was plagiarism, and that I wanted her to remove it.
She was nice about it, and the story was down within 24 hours.
I hope you manage to resolve this successfully. Give it a day, and if Wattpad hasn't removed it, confront the user directly. Good luck!
@ sheepcat;
@ Lorde.
@ PoeticMess.
@ Lulie Belle
@ Haylie Jaed
Thanks for all the comments and replies, guys. I actually reported it early this morning and in just a few hours, Wattpad took down the story for me. Although, I don't think the user knows about it yet. Hopefully, the girl who stole my work realizes what she did was wrong. I did leave her a comment on her page and messaged a few of her followers who liked my story and told them it wasn't her work. I'm just worried that she's still gonna try to post up my story somewhere else or that all her followers won't realize that I wrote the story, not her. But for now, I'm just really glad that my story was taken down from her account.