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Fake User Awareness Thread

Hey! There is a user who I think everyone should beware of! KnotAndRope
I got a message asking to meet up. They are presumably in the UK and I am not. They claimed to be able to pay for flights, well we took it off zooville and they were dumb enough to use old photos on the site from 2019 and thought I wouldn't accidentally stumble across them. I'm assuming they also are using videos that aren't theirs? Immediately when I called them out they removed their profile picture/banned and blocked me on kik (I assume so) and I actually found this thread because they are looking through it! Well, this would not be complete without some proof so...if anyone is interested in seeing them I can send them! I'm not sure if I can post them publicly. I'm just annoyed that I was lied to and catfished
 
Honeylavender said:
Hey! There is a user who I think everyone should beware of! KnotAndRope
I got a message asking to meet up. They are presumably in the UK and I am not. They claimed to be able to pay for flights, well we took it off zooville and they were dumb enough to use old photos on the site from 2019 and thought I wouldn't accidentally stumble across them. I'm assuming they also are using videos that aren't theirs? Immediately when I called them out they removed their profile picture/banned and blocked me on kik (I assume so) and I actually found this thread because they are looking through it! Well, this would not be complete without some proof so...if anyone is interested in seeing them I can send them! I'm not sure if I can post them publicly. I'm just annoyed that I was lied to and catfished
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I know they're a liar. You know how? Because cowards always lie. Fear is a lie. If you got nothing to worry about then you don't block and be a shit listener. Something is clearly not adding up there.

Even if they could pay for the fare and mean it, if they're a shit listener and a coward then that's not worth the trip IMO.
 
Sumpup said:
I do find it fishy when I block a new user for asking specific questions in the pm over and over. Only to find another pm from a new user asking the same questions in a different way a couple days later.

When it comes to my safety and piece of mind I'm very close minded and tight lipped.
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One followed me on my profile,she then asked what is my animals names,I replied No! and pressed the ignore button
 
knotjen said:
That could be what you think it is for sure, but it might not. I say that because the majority of rando's landing in my inbox tend to ask the same 2-3 questions, almost word-for-word.
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Unless they created multiple accounts, there's many possibilities ?
 
mxdwxnders said:
Are you guys serious.. have you not seen the other people with k-pop idols as pfps? Like what. I mean it takes three seconds to read my signature to know that it's Wonyoung from IVE. I mean what the fuck, you people have literally seen be on here before when my profile picture was Lee Know from Stray Kids AND Jungkook from BTS. You guys are just now saying something.

Look I understand I could be "endangering" them, but I have stated clearly that I'm just using them as a pfp? I mean, would you rather me put a photo of my tits? Like what?! It's crazy.
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Dont be an airhead, or worse. If thst person was connected to THIS particular hobby, it would end his or her usefulness to all the little fans. This taboo is not like any other pornography or sexuality in the world. It doesnt matter what you did elsewhere and thought was cute. Using someone elses picture here is worse than doxxing the person, because, sweetheart, they can not simply deny it and walk. Grow the **** up. Actions have consequences.
 
or worse
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What's "worse" for you might be "fine" for me. In this situation it has to do with the upfront/honesty factor. Which is a good argument. The concern is how others take the flak because of using their pictures.

People have this unrealistic expectation that conversations are going to go the way they want/expect. In reality people will misunderstand each other and they will take issue with it. It's better to accept it as an invertibility. This way you'll be prepearing counter moves for arguments sooner rather then later.

To quoite Tony Robbins:
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
 
What a pointless. thread if you think about it.
It has been nothing but AI generated shit pics and some poorly programmed chat bots 95% of the time on here since I joined.

Why not make a "Beware! Legit user awareness thread" instead? lol.
 
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Oldman said:
WHY THE FUCK DID YOU DO THIS!!!!! God damnit people! Stop thinking with your fucking dicks! Don't ever ever ever ever give anyone any "verification" bullshit!

Good luck with whatever the fuck is going to happen to you.
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Probably because not everyone is afraid of showing their face. It's things like credit card information not to give out. That's when they're trying to scam you for money.

I'd want to know what someone looks like before meeting them too. Imagine meeting somoene someone chubby. That just makes the first meeting awkward. Then it's like "You came here for nothing". I don't think showing pics is the problem. I think being shady enough to talk off site ASAP is.

I'm noticing they'll do it less then five messages in a convo. Session or telegram probably.
 
Mesond said:
Probably because not everyone is afraid of showing their face. It's things like credit card information not to give out. That's when they're trying to scam you for money.

I'd want to know what someone looks like before meeting them too.
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Did you know that there are AI based reverse search engines existing which can basically crawl the .nets with just one to two pictures of your face (or anything with your face being a part of it) and in many cases find lots of trails where you've posted..? Directly linking your "verification" to your real life with predestined results if it gets into the wrong hands?

Nooooo? :unsure:

Have fun trying it with your own image for a test run: https://pimeyes.com/en

Holy sh*t, people are not clever nowadays.
 
YanchaOkami said:
Did you know that there are AI based reverse search engines existing which can basically crawl the .nets with just one to two pictures of your face (or anything with your face being a part of it) and in many cases find lots of trails where you've posted..? Directly linking your "verification" to your real life with predestined results if it gets into the wrong hands?

Nooooo? :unsure:

Have fun trying it with your own image for a test run: https://pimeyes.com/en

Holy sh*t, people are not clever nowadays.
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I'm aware. It's not like people weren't photobucketing before that though. What are people going to do with fake pictures when it would never hold up in a court of law because of how easy it is to fake?

You can fake ID easily enough regardless. But just a picture? What are people going to do with that? Now if someone had your picture AND you're bank account details that's another matter. But then you'd have to release something like bank account details in the first place.
 
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YanchaOkami said:
Did you know that there are AI based reverse search engines existing which can basically crawl the .nets with just one to two pictures of your face (or anything with your face being a part of it) and in many cases find lots of trails where you've posted..? Directly linking your "verification" to your real life with predestined results if it gets into the wrong hands?

Nooooo? :unsure:

Have fun trying it with your own image for a test run: https://pimeyes.com/en

Holy sh*t, people are not clever nowadays.
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Tried it with a pic of me, didn't work, didn't find any pic of me from Facebook or any other social media, it showed me pics of people who looked similar to me
 
Mesond said:
Probably because not everyone is afraid of showing their face. It's things like credit card information not to give out. That's when they're trying to scam you for money.

I'd want to know what someone looks like before meeting them too. Imagine meeting somoene someone chubby. That just makes the first meeting awkward. Then it's like "You came here for nothing". I don't think showing pics is the problem. I think being shady enough to talk off site ASAP is.

I'm noticing they'll do it less then five messages in a convo. Session or telegram probably.
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Got a problem with chubbies? You know what they say, bud, "Buggers can't be choosers". Pretty lame, body shaming.

And if you can't figure out a way of getting a look before introducing yourself, good luck the day a Cop shows up.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Got a problem with chubbies? You know what they say, bud, "Buggers can't be choosers". Pretty lame, body shaming.

And if you can't figure out a way of getting a look before introducing yourself, good luck the day a Cop shows up.
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I got a problem with people that can't look after their health and make excuses for it. Chubby people pretend they're not unhealthy. To that I say I know a lot of people that have suffered and died from bad eating habits. It catches up when you neglet it.

It's what you don't think is dangerious that's more dangerious. Not just talking about food either. I also strip away moral high grounds. A cop won't work with me when the law is hypocritical. Also at that point you're talking about a site with dog fucking anyway. Pictures are the least of your problems there.
 
RunFun said:
What a pointless. thread if you think about it.
It has been nothing but AI generated shit pics and some poorly programmed chat bots 95% of the time on here since I joined.

Why not make a "Beware! Legit user awareness thread" instead? lol.
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Pointless comment for a pointless Thread....Seems appropriate. I guess the 5% legit stuff keeps you here, hmm?
 
Social network information or different contact information was quite thoughtlessly shared even two years ago.

And it's not necessary to find out your exact real life data just by one posting or one verification. There are "games" like geoguesser while a lot of people enjoy doing this just as a private hobby. With all the information which might get collected over time from your postings, from different (fake) conversational contacts and whatnot. Why? Maybe because they just don't like people which copulate with animals or wish to do so? That's quite a big reason for some folks.

Edenraed said:
Tried it with a pic of me, didn't work, ..
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It's one tool which can be used to find out more details about people. It doesn't have to be a one-try-hit. There are enough people which would dedicate their whole free time to actually catch zoophiles (and they do, some at least). ?‍♂️

I saw people here and otherwise posting geolocation'ed pictures and their registration plates (if they were theirs), you wouldn't believe how carefree many people are.

From my side it's a friendly warning as it is easier than many assume to find out more than they would ever want to get combined and known about them.

If you don't care: that's fine, consequences are your own hassle, if they should appear. ?‍♂️
 
RunFun said:
You have a point I guess.
When you're right you're right. Even if you're being an ass about it.
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Unless it was "attitude" inserted by a translator, your statement was pretty much the problem. The place is the only game in town. Youve been here 6 months....You ought to learn to navigate it. You do tend, in this world, to get what you give.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Unless it was "attitude" inserted by a translator, your statement was pretty much the problem. The place is the only game in town. Youve been here 6 months....You ought to learn to navigate it. You do tend, in this world, to get what you give.
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I simply observed the behaviour put forth by people like you and then adopted that.
True story.
 
RunFun said:
I simply observed the behaviour put forth by people like you and then adopted that.
True story.
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Except, that like many of the junior grade nutcakes here, you only saw part of it. You have no clue about what I may or may not be like. This is not the place for argument, in any case. True story.
 
Edenraed said:
I agree with what you are saying, a confirmation pic to strangers should never include your face, a piece of paper or any other part of your body can do the trick, but never your face
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The keyword is "Strangers"....expecting a doggie booty call after a day or a week is unreasonable....The person youre looking to meet, if legit, will understand slow. If they push, maybe that's the clue to bag it as experience. I've met ten people from the larger "Community"; taking the time to get to know them pays off. They are all still friends.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Funny....long before AI, people managed to meet. The ease of contact brought with the net, also seems to have increased, rather than lessened, fear.
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That's somewhat dependent on regions and risks. In this country it was fully legal to that time, as long as no cruelty / enforcing / torturing would've been applied. Even meeting with others and all such was fully legal.

Nowadays it's not only more risky by law (even if in detail - under specific circumstances - still not judgeable), but the "social" networks which proved to be a hoard for denunciation in extreme terms ..

.. can nowadays ruin a whole life by just stating something half-true to look true by just a partly screenshot of a conversation or comparable. Job gets instantly canceled to prevent bad influence on the company, every other dependence in life gets spied out and flooded by "haters" (which there are a lot in our topic) with "proof" and suggestive or endangering writings and so on. Family, friends, whole contact lists of "social" networks.

I can absolutely understand why there are new denunciation problems which weren't given around 18 to 25 years ago, let alone before this.. And surely the correct decision is to be somewhat more careful in terms of "the .nets don't forget".
 
YanchaOkami said:
That's somewhat dependent on regions and risks. In this country it was fully legal to that time, as long as no cruelty / enforcing / torturing would've been applied. Even meeting with others and all such was fully legal.

Nowadays it's not only more risky by law (even if in detail - under specific circumstances - still not judgeable), but the "social" networks which proved to be a hoard for denunciation in extreme terms ..

.. can nowadays ruin a whole life by just stating something half-true to look true by just a partly screenshot of a conversation or comparable. Job gets instantly canceled to prevent bad influence on the company, every other dependence in life gets spied out and flooded by "haters" (which there are a lot in our topic) with "proof" and suggestive or endangering writings and so on. Family, friends, whole contact lists of "social" networks.

I can absolutely understand why there are new denunciation problems which weren't given around 18 to 25 years ago, let alone before this.. And surely the correct decision is to be somewhat more careful in terms of "the .nets don't forget".
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This may be true. There may have been places where it was legal. I'd have to see a law book to assess that. In many areas of the World, the fact that this was not specifically ILLEGAL reflects the mores of a time and a belief in class, and not the idea that no one cared. But as the World has developed, especially since WWI, the example of people setting standards has faded into nothing. The net allowed seekers to find. But it also has allowed seekers to be found....and there are reasons to worry about that.

What I do know is we have a remarkable number of people here who think this lends itself to "Saturday night Specials" and a fairly large number of people who prey on them in various degrees. AI has nothing to do with it, as someone here seems to think....since all of the issues were in place 30 plus years ago. The morons of the online world are no different than their earlier counterparts. Computers dont make the Nigerian Prince more Nigerian or more Royal. Protecting yourself is not a job for someone else.....it's your job to do or not.
 
Presumed it was one of your typos. You don't use a lot of limey slang.

Now I'll let you back to your mission of writing half the posts on Zooville, 24/7.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Protecting yourself is not a job for someone else.....it's your job to do or not.
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That's always correct. In a forum at least the background security and right management is established by the forums software and protective measurements, but how people throw around their personal information - that's their own choice.

"AI"s are just tools right now, not sentient AI - mere a training data based emulation of neuronal networks. Big difference. But tools can be used and compare / analyze things ways quicker than humans. Together with snippets of personal information it ends in easier denunciation through those that use them, not themself.

Even with their own responsibility for their risk management .. it doesn't hurt me to mention from time to time how problematic freely shared personal information can get at the end. What people do, that is their own decision.
 
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