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Originally Posted by EliteWebmaster
Today someone was impersonating MechBunny trying to scam more folks.
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A couple of weeks ago someone was impersonating ZuzanaDesigns too. In another 2 weeks it'll be ElevatedX, TMM, Mojohost, or who knows who...
As far as people looking to contact us safely:
- If you have me on your skype already, and someone adds you claiming to work for us (without me saying they are going to add you) - please verify with me. We work out of one office in Poland and do not outsource any staff. Any IPs of ours that you are able to capture should resolve to Poland.
- The only people that quote anything work at our company are me and our office manager, Kuba.
- I never add people randomly to skype to pitch them anything, and if I do come to someone with something it's only people I carry on regular dialog with.
- I *never* ask anyone to exchange paypal for paxum or any crap like that (it fucks with my accounting, and as a development company we don't do a lot of ad buying or anything to suddenly need paxum or payoneer funds)
- We never accept payments via BTC, Yandex, Webmoney or any other sketchy or anonymous payment system that is not typical of adult. I like to know who I'm working with and do not accept anonymity when it comes to business - and neither should you.
and a general rule of thumb:
- Do not trust contact information you searched out yourself in the skype directory for instance. The proper channels of communication with a company are always listed on their website. Us and every other company doing business in adult lists contact information on their sites.
As for your idea, i'd go with more of a blog style layout with people reporting the scams to a central place rather then a forum, and maybe even some kind of newsletter. A forum will get spammed by bots, and not alot of people will regularly check it for it to be successful.