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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Linda Geddes

Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my byline

Geddes sat in room working on laptop and looking a smartphone
Linda Geddes: ‘Someone is potentially making money by passing themselves off as me.’ Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian

It started with an entirely ordinary interaction on LinkedIn. Someone had tagged me in a post, saying how much they’d enjoyed contributing to a New York Post article I’d written about “chronoworking”. As the author of a book about circadian rhythms, it was exactly the sort of subject I might write about. Except I’d never heard of this person, let alone interviewed them.

I clicked on the link and my stomach dropped. There, above an article about people who organise their working lives around their biological clocks, was my name: Linda Geddes.

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