Beware of Scams and Fakes or Scammers
posted 3 years ago
posted by: jtalbot812If someone ask you to text them or Email them from another site because they can't talk on here... It's probably a scammer! Unless you're planning on Meeting up in person or live web cam via skype or zoom or some other video conferencing I find texting and emailing on here just as easy. Just be careful when someone ask you for your Personal Email It's usually how Phishing aka Fishing scams start.....
posted 3 years ago
Watch this space guys as I got message from this guy also this morning . . A red flag went up when he started to give me his story about intending moving yo my country with his parents due to Ukraine war etc in only 2nd message to me. He originally claimed he's from Sweden.
posted 3 years ago
posted by: jtalbot812If someone ask you to text them or Email them from another site because they can't talk on here... It's probably a scammer! Unless you're planning on Meeting up in person or live web cam via skype or zoom or some other video conferencing I find texting and emailing on here just as easy. Just be careful when someone ask you for your Personal Email It's usually how Phishing aka Fishing scams start.....
posted 3 years ago
How about giving out the profile name - the user can then be removed by the site admin who is pretty quick at doing so!
posted 3 years ago
I had this person from Ukraine contact me too. They had a story to tell and I have a good deal of sympathy for them if they are genuine. I tried to point them in the direction of groups that may be able to help them and suggested this was not the best of places to look for help.
posted 3 years ago
posted by: theboiHow about giving out the profile name - the user can then be removed by the site admin who is pretty quick at doing so!
posted 3 years ago
This is good advise to follow, especially on the internet in general.
I'm aware of this person but they seemed to have good intentions in mind initially.
I contacted them and made them aware that mass-messaging/spamming is against our rules. It looks scammy and if continued would need to be blocked.
I'll fine-tune the spam checks, especially for newly created accounts and automatically let sender and receiver know that the sender has been sending out many messages in a short time and that they should reply with caution, as jtalbot812 mentioned.
posted 3 years ago
From Sweden but then admitted he was from Ukraine. Same conversation with him as well. Did not give him my email.
posted 3 years ago
posted by: jtalbot812If someone ask you to text them or email them from another site because they can't talk on here... It's probably a scammer!
posted 3 years ago
I'm communicating with him now... same as above.
https://whatismyipaddress.com/trace-email will check he is emailing from Ukraine... unless using a VPN.
I would suggest everyone uses an 'alias' email anyway, perhaps using protonmail which is pretty secure, so as to not compromise yourself.
He is correct about gay rights in Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Ukraine
Last edited: 3 years ago
posted 3 years ago
I'm sorry to say but the account in question is now clearly breaking our rules and doesn't react to my warnings.
The story is heartbreaking and I gave them the benefit of doubt. But now I'm acting¹ upon what I see: they have contacted over 500 members in just 4 days of time here on Spandex Party and trying to lure/collect member informations like Emails. I can't see what exactly they were typing (but no excessive amount of URLs were sent).
¹) the account has been removed.
posted 3 years ago
Could have been AI bot, English standard was fairly good. He kept asking for my name so defintely phishing. Maybe reverse Google Pics search for the photo he used to see if legit.