How am I getting ripped off here?

[Rictor]

Yes, basically, this is identity theft. Gallery reviewers get used to seeing certain templates and webmaster names and always approve those galleries. Gallery cheaters steal your gallery template and sometimes your name as well and submit their version of your gallery, later redirecting it.

Often you will end up blacklisted for their cheating. But it's harder to blacklist them as they usually have mulitple ips/hosting/e-mail addresses and are stealing and submitting dozens or hundreds of galleries per day, usually auto-submitted through services such as Russian Submitter (which is how auto-submission got a bad name to begin with).