1 hour ago
I was recently PM'd by a 'member' here (Martha Webb) and it was nothing to do with cycling aside from the "l love riding bikes" line. 8 checked and found that this account had posted nothing as a thread or comment, but seems comfortable with just messaging me and stating that my profile was interesting and "caught my eye". Well I know that was BS because my profile says this: "I am an idiot; follow my advice and die."
I decided to play so I sent a message back explaining that I considered to contact to be AI generated, but that 'she/it" could prove to being sincere and real if wanting to, but alas I feel that I scared off the program because no reply has been forthcoming. Amazingly, I was also able to trace the "user" to a F@#kbook account. Same person in the photo as in the member icon used here. It looked again like a fake account with no posts and friends were all men of dubious character.
I hope no one else has been hit up by this scam account, but I think there needs to be a screening method where a member cannot contact another member without at least first posting in the forums. That in and of itself might stop some of this BS, as well as potentially exposing scam in the open before it goes private.
I am reporting the account and I hope others do as well if you have been contacted by same.
I also recommend that accounts opened 5 or more years ago be purged if they never posted here and/or posted only once (usually just to enter the bike giveaway). If you go to the membership list you will discover that the majority of "members" are none and done or one and done. Why have members who do not contribute. They can view everything as a guest so why inflate the membership numbers when it does not truly reflect the activity of the site.
Last note: CLOUDFAIL is a joke and should be removed. I cannot access the site under normal conditions and never really know if I can access it until I've let that damn program cycle for HOURS only to be denied. Why do I have a password? If you want to use CLOUDFAIL then use it for new accounts, not for established accounts.bIt has created problems for me on every site that uses it. It has done one god thing though; it keeps me from going online which is better than being online so maybe CLOUDFAIL is actually a success for me.
I decided to play so I sent a message back explaining that I considered to contact to be AI generated, but that 'she/it" could prove to being sincere and real if wanting to, but alas I feel that I scared off the program because no reply has been forthcoming. Amazingly, I was also able to trace the "user" to a F@#kbook account. Same person in the photo as in the member icon used here. It looked again like a fake account with no posts and friends were all men of dubious character.
I hope no one else has been hit up by this scam account, but I think there needs to be a screening method where a member cannot contact another member without at least first posting in the forums. That in and of itself might stop some of this BS, as well as potentially exposing scam in the open before it goes private.
I am reporting the account and I hope others do as well if you have been contacted by same.
I also recommend that accounts opened 5 or more years ago be purged if they never posted here and/or posted only once (usually just to enter the bike giveaway). If you go to the membership list you will discover that the majority of "members" are none and done or one and done. Why have members who do not contribute. They can view everything as a guest so why inflate the membership numbers when it does not truly reflect the activity of the site.
Last note: CLOUDFAIL is a joke and should be removed. I cannot access the site under normal conditions and never really know if I can access it until I've let that damn program cycle for HOURS only to be denied. Why do I have a password? If you want to use CLOUDFAIL then use it for new accounts, not for established accounts.bIt has created problems for me on every site that uses it. It has done one god thing though; it keeps me from going online which is better than being online so maybe CLOUDFAIL is actually a success for me.
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