I would like to bring your attention that your works might be published here https://fanfics.me/ftf_author138476 without your permission (or, if you are cautious to open unknown web site you can search FFM for your nickname via Google search), because fanfics.me (FFM for brevity sake) is found out to re-post and publish the fanworks without authors' permissions. The owner of that site earns money on other people’s intellectual property through ads on his site, so I would suggest using ads blocker when visiting the site. The fanworks are taken without any authors' permission and even their knowledge about this situation from numerous sites, like archiveofourown.org, fanfiction.net, and etc. If you indeed gave your permission to FFM for publication of your works, then disregard my message.
If you did not give a permission, then we regret that this happened to you. We have a very useful advice from AO3 Legal Team (https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2692 ), which our volunteers checked by ourselves. You need to submit the takedown request to the host site and, then, your works and, if you request this, any piece of information about you should get deleted from FFM after the hosting company processes your request (usually it takes 2-12 hours). It is simple to do, quick and very efficient solution. It also works perfectly well for all stolen works taken not only from AO3, but from any other international fan sites. For your convenience, here is a simple guide on how to fill in the authors' right violation claim form at the host site along with suggested complain text and some advice with regards to e-mail exchange with the hosting company: https://do-a-reference-properly.tumblr.com/post/187926459079/finally-some-good-news
Please, help us share this information with all abused authors and stop the theft of your stories. Please share/reblog our Tumblr post to alert all fanworks creators. And we hope that this information will help you to resolve this problem easily.
You might also want to check our initial post on FFM where we explain how this site works and how it copies fanworks without permission. It’s available here https://do-a-reference-properly.tumblr.com/post/187557754659/ao3s-users-alert-unauthorised-fanworks-copying , though please keep in mind that the method of fanworks deletion described in this post is less effective.
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