Burned By a Charlatan

I was online on Friday to see that the word’s out on another faker (a rare occurrence here)..... Now that I've had a day or two to quell my rage, this is what I think. I am glad he’s been run out of town. I feel empathy for those members who were drawn in by “notthe7.fan” (particularly the girl herself) and the guy whose photos were stolen (which were posted to another site). I want to apologise in person, but then what the fuck does that achieve? The damage is done, and he’s disappeared into the ether. Never to be ‘seen’ or heard from again. No, troglodytes like him, whoever he is, should be left to fulfil their perversities in the hope that they get caught up with at a later stage.

It’s creepy that a person could be so obsessed to want to masquerade as, and as such live vicariously through, another. I have been trying to work out (I’m a consultant criminologist) what kind of person would a) spawn the username of another to endow his own and then b) steal the intellectual property of other members? There is no mitigation in the fact that the stolen materials were posted to another site. If anything, it is more unsettling. It also raises a question that doesn't warrant answering.

Anyway, I’ll get off my soapbox now. The flipside of all of this is that it serves as a timely reminder to all of us to be vigilant. Post verified photos (and as an after-thought, reap the benefits), don’t be too eager to trust, and remember that if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

I did note at one point, he was using an avatar modelled on a character from the Japanese anime series, Death Note, which is based around a shinigami – a god of death / Grim Reaper-type character – who loses the book in which he writes the names of the people to die. Is it just me, or is there something ironic about that?

To his ‘victims’ (a strong word, I know, but not inappropriate) be thankful that you’re walking away with bruised egos. My burning by a charlatan took months and $$$$ to clear up.

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In my years of chatting in various forums. (8 to be exact) I have ran into fake profiles that range from the very elaborate to the thinly veiled.

Some people, if clever enough, put the most obvious of clues out there for us the unsuspecting public to see.

I have been taken in by someone I was very close to for YEARS. Someone I thought was a friend. Only after he ran off with an ex boyfriend did I find out by means of a little Nancy Drew work that he had lied about his appearance.
(Which didn't matter much to me, I still have no idea why he lied.)

I sent this person Christmas gifts when times were supposedly hard, birthday cards, phone cards and not to mention the time invested in being there for him. I had talked with his mother on the phone, who thanked me for my generosity and even said to me "If it were not for your gifts my son would have had nothing for Christmas."

I am guilt free. My conscience is clear. I followed my heart and did the right thing.

Some time after the friendship was long over, I received a message from him saying that "He missed me and cared about me."

I quoted lyrics from a U2 song, One Love.
Do we as decent people leave such a bad taste in the mouth of those fakers that make it necessary for these kinds of deception? I think not. This was not my fault, I was not to blame for his short comings.

If life has many varying levels and degrees, if water seeks it's own level then evil has the same. Combined with mental illness and lack of self worth, we see now just how perverse and twisted people allow THEMSELVES to be.

Always on guard and never anything at face value until I see it on web cam or in person.

Oh and NEVER AGAIN.
 
Just another lost in the wind...

Too bad my name had to affilated with it all huh?

You should think about posting more often Stu.
 
The thing that I find odd (or ironic) is that both you and notthe7fan both have a period in their member names. The only 2 members on here that I have seen with that.
 

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