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Old September 15th, 2009, 03:34 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Hey guys. Interesting story. Got an im from a friend saying someone with the screenname princesstera85 was looking for me. I was already suspicious because I hadn't talked to the first person in years, and had no idea who the new screename was. I ignored it. Over the next few days I got the same message 4 or 5 times. Figuring it was an aim virus I decided to follow up on it and see if I couldn't track someone or something related to it down. Well I im'd the new person and come to find out they're trying to get people to come see them strip on their webcam shows and lucky me....she's gonna give me a free trial! lol. So playing dumb I keep collecting info and head over to the site. deleted [!!possible adult content, not a trusted site, view at your own risk!!] Funny. The friends section that requires you to get your super special secret password....will actually accept ANY password. Get in, sign up with a fake name & junk email address. It "fails to verify my age" and immediately asks for credit card info over unsecure http. Bummer. Going on further, I try to view the tos and privacy policy....they don't exist and it just takes you back to the home page. When I mention this to princess whatever from above, she disappears. Final Verdict...SCAM!

Sorry for including so many details. I found very little to no info about this when searching so I was hoping this would be indexed and hopefully be a resource for those checking if it's a scam! Now for the questions. Who would I report this to?

I've reported it to the hosting provider w/ all the above info. Just not sure who to report to next!
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you might try filling a report here Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Home
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I would just ignore it
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Old September 15th, 2009, 12:05 PM     #4 (permalink)
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I get them all the time with Skype - or at least until I set it to only accept from those in my contacts...

Clicking Block and/or Ignore doesn't do anything, in fact one of them adds them as a contact (WTFF..??) and you then have to delete them from there too...

Just ignore it...
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Well in Skype you have the option to not receive any messages from people that aren't added to your buddy list. I have that checked on every IM'er I have/use just to avoid these kind of spamming messages..
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