Hey everybody,
I haven’t stopped to write down a private message shortly, however a superb Twitch samaritan named SaucySnark introduced this to my consideration and I needed to do what I can do be certain everyone seems to be conscious of it.
Some muppet on Twitch going by the identify of wolfsgaminghubb is utilizing my web site brand, 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 stated: “I run a big gaming criticism platform with a Twitch-heavy viewers. We’re deciding on one helldivers streamer for a 14-day featured progress 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 progress research exterior of finding out how a lot my abdomen grows after I raid the native all you possibly can eat buffet.
“I’ll function you throughout my weblog for 14 days with structured articles, embedded streams, homepage placement, and direct calls-to-action to our Twitch viewers. We monitor follower and viewer progress earlier than and after,” stated the imposter.
SaucySnark pointed me towards the video of his stream the place you possibly can 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 informed me that the faux needed to talk on Discord utilizing the username ronie100, which is my surname. Minus the 100, clearly. Though now I type of want that was my precise identify. Hmm. The imposter claimed they’d “ship a hyperlink to my blogs”, so I assume the intent was to direct SaucySnark to right here as a way to show their identification. After all, SaucySnark is essentially the most epic individual on the planet and didn’t fall for such a daft plan.
It’s a basic rip-off, actually. Choose a small web site that has sufficient site visitors and presence to level folks towards however that isn’t tremendous well-known in order that no person notices the impersonation occurring. I obtained fortunate that the superb SaucySnark observed one thing was up and took the time to message me. Please, please, when you’ve got a Twitch account, go take a look at SaucySnark on Twitch: https://www.twitch.television/saucysnark
As for the imposter, I created a Twitch account as a way to report them correctly, and can hopefully heard from Twitch quickly and might 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 previously.
Thanks for taking the time to learn this everybody. Please maintain your eyes open for all scams. It’s far too simple to stroll into them generally, even for essentially the most vigilant of us.
In the event you want to assist, report them on Twitch: Go to twitch.television/wolfsgaminghubb, three dots > Report > Person > 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. In the event you see me anyplace else, it in all probability isn’t me. However in case you are ever unsure, be happy to contact me right here by way of the web site.
