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    Default A "studio" scammed my friend..maybe you guys can help me with how to go about it?

    Okay my friend has been camming on Streammate for a month. So...she randomly gets this email from a guy whos an hour away from us about how she should do cam work she can make thousands etc (she is a Suicide Girl, he got her email from her profile etc.) Shes never done camming before, so instantly was like on board/sent her id/info OVER FACEBOOK yes. I know.. He makes her the account, her username everything.tells her to log in, start camming. She did really well made like 500 and another 180, but so I log into her account I can see her tokens/earnings etc (I'm not familiar with Streammate i use other sites) the option where to send her paychecks is gone/not even an option for her. Every site I've been on had the option of how you want your earnings and where etc. So that threw me off must be a studio thing... He's refusing to pay her, giving her excuses like His paypal got closed down, he made a new account and said that her account cant accept his payments? he wont do a money order, money gram, keeps dodging her. Streammate support pretty much told her you have to contact the studio and all that.... Sooo is there anything we can do to get her earnings? or did she get burned? thankyou

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    Default Re: A "studio" scammed my friend..maybe you guys can help me with how to go about it?

    Contact Liz with screen shots of everything (the facebook set up, the emails from support, his BS emails saying he can't pay her). Try to get out of the 'studio' contract and/or have the account shut down. Her email is Liz at streamate dot com (spell it out properly--just trying to keep the spam bots away).

    The Flying Monkeys of Streamate Support are useless. Liz can actually look into this.

    Also, for your friend: DO NOT WORK ANOTHER SHIFT UNTIL LIZ GETS BACK TO YOU! This guy is a scammer and is probably having every bit of money sent straight to his own address. This is FRAUD!


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    Default Re: A "studio" scammed my friend..maybe you guys can help me with how to go about it?

    This is a scam, obviously. Do EXACTLY what Issabelle said. Also really dumb of your friend to sign up through some rando through facebook. Really really stupid. Wow.

    Also tell her do not accept payments through PP for any adult related stuff. He could report her to PP and she'll never get the money.





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    Default Re: A "studio" scammed my friend..maybe you guys can help me with how to go about it?

    I wonder if your friend could press charges on this loser

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    Default Re: A "studio" scammed my friend..maybe you guys can help me with how to go about it?

    There's got to be a way she can report him to streammate and have streammate pay her and reverse the payment to this guy. Call PayPal or whoever processed the payment and report him.

    Yeah his accounts got shut down if he's out there scamming people.
    “Cook for him like a housewife, fuck him good like a nympho….pay the rent and the car note, he invests in me like crypto”

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    Default Re: A "studio" scammed my friend..maybe you guys can help me with how to go about it?

    STreamate may shut him down, but probably wont pay her out. She was new, didnt know better. Tell her never ever give out any personal info on any social site.

    Now, it isn't a matter of writing off that money, that is cheap. He has her personal infomation & social security number. He can sell it or rack up huge debts in her name. She does need to go to the police & file a report, not that she will EVER get justice but to file a paper trail for all the future work she will have in keeping her credit report clean & safe.

    Help her sign up to other cam sites mean while, obviously she can make money on cam. Get that girl to working. She will need that money to pay a lawyer or whatever, others on here will know how best to protect her credit ratings & such.

    She is just learned a hard and very expensive lesson, way more than the $680 he owes her. She can't count on streamate making that up to her either.

    You do NOT know that he lives a few hours away, that is just what he wants her to think. He also has her address.

    What does need to be done, is HIS info, fb page & such the story posted all over the web to prevent him from scamming more girls. Document it all & sent to every cam company on the web. We can NOT continue to let predators operate in this industry, taking advantage or new, inexperienced people. Document it all and go to MikeSouth.com to report it too. He might have some good advice for her.

    Do NOT let her just take it & cry over it. Tell her to fight back. He didn't play fair, neither should she.

    She needs to move. She needs to get a new DL or ID with new address on it.
    She needs to IMMEDIATELY get that life lock credit protection NOW NOW NOW.


    Let her know how important it is to read every contract & if she doesn't understand something, have a LAWYER explain it to her. I have had cam companies out and out LIE to me when I asked about things I found fishy in their contracts. Can't trust them to be honest about it. ALL Terms need to be in writing.


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    Default Re: A "studio" scammed my friend..maybe you guys can help me with how to go about it?

    Also he may in the future file with the IRS & get her refund checks if she has any money coming to her.

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    Default Re: A "studio" scammed my friend..maybe you guys can help me with how to go about it?

    Sam brings up a very good point. She needs to contact the major credit reporting agencies (TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian) and have her credit reports frozen. This prevents anyone opening up fake accounts in her name as banks will be unable to run credit checks to approve those accounts.

    Next, she needs to call the social security administration office and let them know that her number has been stolen by a scammer. She'll probably have to explain, in detail, how that happened as 'I got a job offer online and gave him ALL of my information like an idiot, so now I need a new number.' They may not approve that new number and that wipes out her entire credit history to date, but that's the cost of this level of information being out and about in god knows whose hands.

    Get credit monitoring. My bank offers it for all of $15-20 per month and notifies me anytime there is activity on any of the major agencies (delinquent account, over-limit cards/accounts, new accounts opened, etc.) to help her keep up with the fact that someone has her info and may use it.

    File a fraud and stolen ID report with the Federal Trade Commission and the police. She'll need that paper trail in place if the guy does start selling/using her info. Here's a great article on it: http://www.transunion.com/personal-c...ity-theft.page.

    She'll need to notify every bank she uses of the fraud and stolen information so they keep an eye on her accounts.

    Basically, this head ache is far more than just a few hundred dollars, as Sam pointed out. If your friend hasn't done it already, tell her to smack herself upside her own head. I imagine she's probably profoundly embarrassed, but the reality of the world is that trusting someone like that is a very, very bad idea.


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