AKA Catfishers, Rip off artists, and scammers
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You log into Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or where ever you consume your social media and someone with my pictures DM’s you/follows you/likes your media. You strike up a conversation.
It’s probably not me. I only talk to people I know on social.
You get a DM from someone using my pictures and asking you to be their personal submissive.
It’s probably not me. I only choose personal submissives from people I have seen as clients because they have already shown they can follow my rules and value my time.
You find a free crossdressing group on facebook and it’s active and once again there are my pictures and links to my site and my social media but they tell you to only DM them on facebook.
STILL NOT ME!
Uhg. I, as well as every adult performer I know constantly deal with scammers and impersonators using our names, our pictures, even linking to our sites and telling you that this space, whether it’s a “private” Instagram or Twitter account, Facebook groups, discord, kik, and EVERY other online space.
It can feel special to have someone reach out to you and want to claim you. To flirt with you. And they often brazenly talk about things on our social media or web sites in a way that makes them seem like it could be us. Just maybe.
It feels horrible to find out that you have been sending money to someone who is not who they say. Or having conversations about a potential session. Even talking about being in a personal relationship, only to find out that they are not who they say they are. You’ve lost money, self worth, and feel a fool. But you are not alone. Far from it.
I often hear about these relationships when something tips one of you off and you reach out to me to clarify. I feel bad crushing your hopes, and saying, nope. It’s not me. But I also don’t know how to get people to stop stealing my stuff and taking your money. And they won’t because … you keep giving it to them. And social media doesn’t make it any easier because they delete our accounts so we always have new ones, as well as back up ones.
I could go on about this. All of the people I know in the industry have been effected. Several, like my business partner Mistress Viola, and Daddy An Li have written great posts about their experiences with scammers and catfishers.
There are ways to protect yourself!
First and foremost ONLY CONTACT US THROUGH OUR SITES. If someone reach out to you claiming to be us, contact us through our site to confirm. ESPECIALLY if we tell you that you don’t need to in our special insta/facebook/kik/tiktok. Our better yet, sign up for our official fanclub and talk to us there.
It straight up sucks to have you contact us, tell us you fell for an imposter, get mad at us, then tell us you can’t pay us for our time and content because you are depressed because you gave so much $$ and fell for an imposter. Even though you love what we are doing.
The thing to remember is this is a business for us. We are indeed kinky as fuck and we love this business, BUT;
- We don’t have time to reach out to people individually to try to book sessions.
- We don’t have the energy to chat with you for free. We reserve that for our clients and personal submissives.
- We don’t have special hidden places on the internet. We are business people. If we have someplace on the internet that we like to hang out and we want you there WE WILL ADVERTISE IT.
- We will never ask you to send a deposit through Western Union. I’m not sure who uses Western Union at this point aside from scammers.
What can you do?
Report them. They will simply start up another account IF the service they are on even bothers to shut them down. You can tell us, but chances are we know and we have reported them. And really, it just bums me out that there are people out there making money off my work. I don’t have the time nor energy to post links to all the scammers our there using my info. Unfortunately it is it’s own industry at this point.
You can also simply ignore them. If you don’t fall for it, they will move on.
Or. My favorite. Play them at their own game and send me screenshots.
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