Hello Facepunch,
I am posting this not for the sole purpose of ranting, but also reach out for your help. I run a community of 7,000 members by the name of Garnet Gaming - it includes a moderately active DarkRP server which hits 70-80 users at peak times. Recently I was contacted by Cyber Ninja who is the owner of a server by the name of TPS Gaming. this guy threatened to harm me personally, and he is claiming that he is out to hijack my server. Among the things he told me are that "i'm asking for war", "they got all my info" - I have absolutely no idea what he's trying to do, but I would like to protect myself and my community.
Today, I logged onto Steam with my inbox blown up with members of my community claiming that a user which has a replica of my steam profile has contacted them, impersonating me. I was given a link to the profile [url]http://steamcommunity.com/id/LulzSec4200[/url] - a copy of my own personal profile, [url]http://steamcommunity.com/id/GarnetGaming/[/url]
Additionally, he's made a replica of my steam group - [url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/garnetsgaming[/url], my own steam group may be found at [url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/garnetgaming[/url] .
I have since spoke to a couple of community owners, and found out that cyber ninja is reputable for "hijacking" communities by bullying owners out of their position, only to claim the server as his own later on in some form of a "redux".
My plans are to have my community of 7k members mass-report this group and profile in attempt to stop whatever he's trying to get at. Is that the best I can do for the time being?
Any responses are greatly appreciated,
Thank you Facepunch!
This is all true. This person has done a bunch of things to me as well. Let me explain breifly what happened...
Alright, I was a little kid you know? I donated to his server "TPS Gaming" but I had not gotten my package I donated for, I just logged off hoping it would come and then it never did... I spent around $12 on donations for his server but got nothing in-return, so I thought it would be best to chargeback the donations. Anyhow, I charged them back and he added me threating me and calling me names and stuff like that, I got pretty annoyed with him and then just today I found out he was impersonating Garnet and his server. This is not the first time he has done this, I have seen many other victims to this mans mistakes and they are not right. I also learned he is 40 years old, and him ripping off a 13 year old is kind of horrible. Just take care of this guy.
[QUOTE=Kyle1337;50251984]This is all true. This person has done a bunch of things to me as well. Let me explain breifly what happened...
Alright, I was a little kid you know? I donated to his server "TPS Gaming" but I had not gotten my package I donated for, I just logged off hoping it would come and then it never did... I spent around $12 on donations for his server but got nothing in-return, so I thought it would be best to chargeback the donations. Anyhow, I charged them back and he added me threating me and calling me names and stuff like that, I got pretty annoyed with him and then just today I found out he was impersonating Garnet and his server. This is not the first time he has done this, I have seen many other victims to this mans mistakes and they are not right. I also learned he is 40 years old, and him ripping off a 13 year old is kind of horrible. Just take care of this guy.[/QUOTE]
Please add me on steam so I can talk to you about this issue?
If someone is threatening to harm you, you should really be talking to the police, even if it's bluffing.
[QUOTE=UberMensch;50253682]If someone is threatening to harm you, you should really be talking to the police, even if it's bluffing.[/QUOTE]
I was thinking about it buddy, but involving direct harm to myself, he said over voicechat.
Right now if I were to notify any sort of authority I'd literally be showing them this as evidence:
[5/3/2016 3:18:53 AM] cyber ninja:put a hit on ur ass
[5/3/2016 3:23:08 AM] cyber ninja: well i was nice u have no clue who or what i am or my friends can doo
[5/3/2016 3:23:18 AM] cyber ninja: but u will know soon
This is best taken up with Steam customer support (and/or the police, if he is threatening you physically). We are unable to help you.
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