Post by SarahCate on Dec 28, 2014 13:46:31 GMT -6
I'm sorry that this is the thing I'm coming back to post today. I've wanted to so much to grow our community, but with my own post-cancer issues, I've been extremely remiss of late about coming here to participate myself, much less recruit and welcome new members!
I discovered today (thanks to a blog dedicated to such things) that one of our own members has been exposed as a scam artist. A cancer hoax. User SEEGIRLLIVE is not in fact Emily Wilson suffering from uterine and colon cancer, but rather part of an elaborate hoax spanning (at least) 2 different fake cancer patient histories.
Although never part of this site, tumblr user bcomingfree (Jamilla) was evidently the previous incarnation of this fakery, and after killing her off last November, the scammer moved on to create Emily (seegirllive both here and on tumblr).
I want to apologize to all of our members for not recognizing or realizing that we were being scammed. I suppose this is the one time I'm glad our site has not yet really taken off. Her impact and damage here will be minimal, especially in comparison to other communities where she was far more active and gathered far more support.
I don't really know what to do to protect us from things like this. Obviously I was snowed, or I would never have invited her to be a part of this space. In the next few days I'll delete the account etc, but wanted to leave it up long enough for anyone who HAS interacted with her to track back and save any messages/notes/replies etc that they may want for whatever reason.
I'm so sorry that this kind of deception has taken place even here. And I hope that our few faithful members will stick with us, even though we are small and still fairly quiet.
SarhCate
I discovered today (thanks to a blog dedicated to such things) that one of our own members has been exposed as a scam artist. A cancer hoax. User SEEGIRLLIVE is not in fact Emily Wilson suffering from uterine and colon cancer, but rather part of an elaborate hoax spanning (at least) 2 different fake cancer patient histories.
Although never part of this site, tumblr user bcomingfree (Jamilla) was evidently the previous incarnation of this fakery, and after killing her off last November, the scammer moved on to create Emily (seegirllive both here and on tumblr).
I want to apologize to all of our members for not recognizing or realizing that we were being scammed. I suppose this is the one time I'm glad our site has not yet really taken off. Her impact and damage here will be minimal, especially in comparison to other communities where she was far more active and gathered far more support.
I don't really know what to do to protect us from things like this. Obviously I was snowed, or I would never have invited her to be a part of this space. In the next few days I'll delete the account etc, but wanted to leave it up long enough for anyone who HAS interacted with her to track back and save any messages/notes/replies etc that they may want for whatever reason.
I'm so sorry that this kind of deception has taken place even here. And I hope that our few faithful members will stick with us, even though we are small and still fairly quiet.
SarhCate