Potential Spam Page - bertopic.com is NOT the official site

[MaartenGr]

Hi all!

I was notified that BERTopic has a potential spam page acting as if it is the official page, namely https:// bertopic.com/.

The official documentation is https://maartengr.github.io/BERTopic/

I want to make it clear that I do not authorize this page, and it misuses the BERTopic name and content without permission. Now I'm all for open-source, but the site even has a contact page pointing towards some weird spammy mail account.

For those who have the time and are willing to stand up for open-source, you can report this page to Google's search engine here so it hopefully gets removed there.

If anybody has experience dealing with this nonsense, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[MaartenGr]

It seems that I'm not the only one where this is happening, a quick search shows that the spam-mail (emmawatsofficial54@gmail.com) is being used at many other sites:

• https://crystaldiskmark.org/contact-us/ (from the repo https://github.com/hiyohiyo/CrystalDiskMark)
• https://vcxsrv.com/write-for-us/ (from the repo https://github.com/marchaesen/vcxsrv)
• https://reactstrap.com/contact-us/ (from the repo https://github.com/reactstrap/reactstrap)

And there are a dozen others.

DO NOT TRUST any downloads from bertopic.com!

[drmagazi]

Yeah, I was reading it today and it seemed kind of weird - especially with the AI generated thumbnails for the guides. Thanks for making this clear, it fooled me. I've reported it.