RE: Imposter Alert: @nomorefakenews

To help clarify this is a FAKE account I just received this response from the REAL Jon Rappoport:

Vickie,
Do you work for Steemit? I didn't get that one way or another in our emails.
To my knowledge, no one I know opened an account for me, unless I casually allowed someone who emailed me to post my articles there---in which case I didn't know what kind of operation Steemit is. I myself did not open a Steemit account.
In your email, you asked me if "this is me." And it was. Meaning: your email came through to my email box. That's all. I have no idea who is using my name or opened an account in my name.
If I did give casual permission to someone, I had no idea it was this kind of complex money-making enterprise.
Does that clarify things?
If someone is pretending to me and making money, why doesn't Steemit shut them down?
What verification is necessary to open an account, other than email address? There ought to be something.
I post all my articles at www,nomorefakenews.com, and I have an email list as well. Many sites have published my articles. But not by pretending to be me and making money.
Jon