Fakery!

[Vinyadan]

I just thought I'd point out to the Giant's recent tweets. Starting https://twitter.com/RichBurlew/status/708734719479910406 and following 8 tweets.



Rich Burlew ‎@RichBurlew

So there's a fake company going around saying that they helped market my Kickstarter, and are using that to scam $ from people. 1/9

Right now they're called Kickstarter Target, but in January they were called Kickstarter Sponsor and Kickstarter Warrior. 2/9

Here's the current site: http://www.kickstartertarget.com Here's where they claim to have worked with me: http://www.kickstartertarget.com/?page_id=14 3/9

Here's one of the sites from Jan. on Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20160203055557/http://www.kickstartersponsor.com/ … IndieGoGo fans, they'll scam you too: http://www.gogomarketer.com 4/9

At least 1 person who emailed me about this had given $ and never heard from them again. That they regularly change names is a giveaway. 5/9

Criminals preying on folks trying to make their creative dreams come true and it fills me with rage that they're using my name. 6/9

For the record: I never worked with any marketing companies on my Kickstarter. It was all self-promotion, word-of-mouth, earned media. 7/9

More to the point, if you're running a Kickstarter and you get approached by a company looking for $ for marketing, stay away. 8/9

At very least, do the research and find out if the people they've claimed to have helped have ever actually heard of them. 9/9

[Mad Humanist]

I just thought I'd point out to the Giant's recent tweets. Starting https://twitter.com/RichBurlew/status/708734719479910406 and following 8 tweets.

I feel sorry for the people taken in by the scam.

[gooddragon1]

Just the nature of the economy (perhaps even the global economy). Some people want to make money in whatever way they can. If it's another country then good luck prosecuting them. Wasn't too long ago when we had masses and masses of spam ads on this forum. Very little of what goes on these days surprises me anymore.

[NerdyKris]

Don't be ridiculous. This type of scam has existed since the first merchant said "I should advertise my wares" and someone else said "Let me help". It's nothing new and has nothing to do with a global economy.

[King of Nowhere]

you can say it's human nature, or it's in the economy whether it's stone age economy or modern economy, but the issue does not change: scams are nothing new.

[Killer Angel]

This type of scam has existed since the first merchant said "I should advertise my wares" and someone else said "Let me help". It's nothing new and has nothing to do with a global economy.

Pretty much. Tech changes only the way they work and their spreading on a worldwide scale.

[Douglas]

Wasn't too long ago when we had masses and masses of spam ads on this forum. Very little of what goes on these days surprises me anymore.
Yeah, it was crazy. We'd get around 400 or 500 spam threads per day, nearly all of them in Korean advertising some casino. Don't ask me what Korean language spammers thought they'd get from posting on an English language forum.:smallannoyed:

[littlebum2002]

Yeah, it was crazy. We'd get around 400 or 500 spam threads per day, nearly all of them in Korean advertising some casino. Don't ask me what Korean language spammers thought they'd get from posting on an English language forum.:smallannoyed:

I don't think they're meant to be read, they're just for manipulating Google results.

Also, anyone remember spam faxes?

[PallentisLunam]

I don't think they're meant to be read, they're just for manipulating Google results.

Also, anyone remember spam faxes?

Gonna tip my hand with this one but, was that a thing? Please tell me that wasn't actually a thing.

[NerdyKris]

It was a thing. It still is a thing. Nowadays it's more daily specials from local restaurants no matter how often you ask them to stop, but back in the day they'd use an autodialer to send out spam faxes just like they do with robo calls.

[aurilee]

It was a thing. It still is a thing. Nowadays it's more daily specials from local restaurants no matter how often you ask them to stop, but back in the day they'd use an autodialer to send out spam faxes just like they do with robo calls.

This is why my parents kept our home fax machine unplugged unless they were expecting something or sending something (I realise that having a fax machine at home wasn't exactly normal, but my mom worked from home full-time, and my dad worked partially from home, so it was necessary). Certainly after working hours it was always unplugged (unless I was using it to send homework/school project stuff to my friends, who also had fax machines due to work-at-home parents).

It's a real shame about this scam though, especially for something like Kickstarter where people are putting themselves out there and trying to make some dream of theirs into a reality. Scams in general though always get to me...they prey on the vulnerable and the hopeful (a lot specifically target the elderly) and I can't think of anything more despicable. Some of my grandparents' friends got sucked in by a pretty major scam a few years ago and it was just heartbreaking.

[kaoskonfety]

I don't think they're meant to be read, they're just for manipulating Google results.

Also, anyone remember spam faxes?

Remember? Faxes are still a thing, and yes, there is still spam on them.

[Peelee]

Wait, are you guys telling me that i can't actually get great deals on Caribbean cruises? But that fax looked so legit!

[aurilee]

Wait, are you guys telling me that i can't actually get great deals on Caribbean cruises? But that fax looked so legit!

Scale of sketchy-to-legit looks like this:

E-mail --> Phone --> Letter in the mail --> Fax

Cause only the legit-est of the legit have a fax machine.