Hey everybody,
I haven’t stopped to put in writing a private message shortly, however a very good Twitch samaritan named SaucySnark introduced this to my consideration and I wished to do what I can do be certain that everyone seems to be conscious of it.
Some muppet on Twitch going by the title of wolfsgaminghubb is utilizing my web site emblem, and seems to be operating some type of rip-off based mostly on pretending to be me. He popped into SaucySnark’sawesome Helldivers 2 stream and mentioned: “I run a big gaming criticism platform with a Twitch-heavy viewers. We’re deciding on one helldivers streamer for a 14-day featured development case examine targeted on character. You match the profile.”
Clearly, that’s not me. I didn’t have a Twitch account previous to the one I simply made to report this ludicrous cockwomble, nor do I run case development research exterior of learning how a lot my abdomen grows after I raid the native all you may eat buffet.
“I’ll characteristic you throughout my weblog for 14 days with structured articles, embedded streams, homepage placement, and direct calls-to-action to our Twitch viewers. We observe follower and viewer development earlier than and after,” mentioned the imposter.
SaucySnark pointed me towards the video of his stream the place you may see the douchebag seem within the chat at round 17:50. You possibly can see it right here: https://www.twitch.television/movies/2706488470
SaucySnark instructed me that the pretend wished to speak on Discord utilizing the username ronie100, which is my surname. Minus the 100, clearly. Though now I form of want that was my precise title. Hmm. The imposter claimed they might “ship a hyperlink to my blogs”, so I assume the intent was to direct SaucySnark to right here with a view to show their id. In fact, SaucySnark is essentially the most epic particular person on the planet and didn’t fall for such a daft plan.
It’s a traditional rip-off, actually. Choose a small web site that has sufficient visitors and presence to level individuals towards however that isn’t tremendous well-known in order that no one notices the impersonation happening. I bought fortunate that the wonderful SaucySnark seen one thing was up and took the time to message me. Please, please, you probably have a Twitch account, go try SaucySnark on Twitch: https://www.twitch.television/saucysnark
As for the imposter, I created a Twitch account with a view to report them correctly, and can hopefully heard from Twitch quickly and may start engaged on getting them banned. Nonetheless, I’m not super-hopeful but as my previous experiences with getting impersonators stopped has not been nice. I’ve had this whole web site cloned a number of occasions up to now.
Thanks for taking the time to learn this everybody. Please preserve your eyes open for all scams. It’s far too simple to stroll into them typically, even for essentially the most vigilant of us.
If you happen to want to assist, report them on Twitch: Go to twitch.television/wolfsgaminghubb, three dots > Report > Consumer > Search > Impersonation. Point out the VOD: twitch.television/movies/2706488470 (17:50-31:30).
For future reference: I’ve no official Twitch channel, nor any public Discord username for this web site. The one social media I preserve is on Twitter and BlueSky, each of which I barely ever use. If you happen to see me anyplace else, it most likely isn’t me. However in case you are ever doubtful, be happy to contact me right here through the web site.