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Should we kick-vote the author this early though? The phishing/spam link appeared to be an actual tech website at some point (web.archive snapshot from 2014[^]) so the original owner probably didn't renew the domain and scammers bought it... the author also has 20 articles and was MVP 2018, so I'd lean towards giving the benefit of the doubt about the (former) legitimacy of the reported links.
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That's a difficult one: I'm reluctant to be the one suggesting a "special rule" for MVP / high ranking members because that's always going to be seen as self serving, even if it isn't intended that way. And she has clearly broken the rules: if she had hosted the downloads on CP (like the other half of most of her links per article) then this problem would never have arisen.
Add in that we can't really contact her directly to explain our position without a potential public food fight that I'd like to avoid, and it gets more difficult.
I'd say for the moment we kick her so that she doesn't automatically restore them and we end up chasing new versions for weeks, but we ask @Sean-Ewington to have a private word (as staff) and explain the position. He has the power to reanimate her account and her other articles won't be lost in the meantime. So if she has the download sources for the suspect articles (and that's a big if, given they are five odd years old) she can repost them herself with onsite links.
Sound like a plan?
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I agree with him but I agree with you too, so I have given the last kick to the article with corrected link and the user is almost gone.
I would recommend @Sean-Ewington to have a look in the DB, just in case that site is being used in other articles to host downloads (which would increase the probability of @programfox being right about that pretty nasty coincidence)
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Definitely don't kick the author. Scammers purchase abandoned domains all the time. How can an author be held responsible for that?
I'll have a word.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Author link removed. 
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Then please wipe the reports... mine was the 8th or 9th
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I suppose you wanted to "summon" him, instead of linking his profile... I changed it
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No, I was happy with a link - I told him on his report that I had done it for him.
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Then... sorry.
I'll change it back
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Don't worry about it - it's not important.
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Regrettably, yes.
Personally, I'd prefer castration followed by defenestration, but ... 
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after 7 years... the first he does...
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I'm guessing, but ... updating his resume?
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Plagiarist terminated.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
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