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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 13, 2021 18:56:27 GMT -5
Tim recently brought to light some alarming news about a former member who went by the name "Natalie Salat." As it turns out, this person is a man by the name of Paul Benjamin Austin who has a history of posing as a disabled woman and harassing online communities. You can read the full story here.I banned him back in early 2017 for harassing other members, and not before I gave him a good chewing out in a PM. I think he may have tried to sneak back in under a sockpuppet once, but otherwise, he hasn't been seen or heard from since then. I hope it stays this way, but knowing his history, you never know. If you see a new member here exhibiting the behavior patterns outlined in that article, PLEASE alert either myself or the other Mods immediately! This man is dangerous and needs to be kept away from the site. |
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Sept 14, 2021 3:14:19 GMT -5
Whoa, this guy seems insane what he's done over the past 20 years. It was shocking reading how he'd posed as different people using images of minors as his profile pics and saying what he'd experienced before which weren't true.
It goes to show how some people can slip under the radar of social media giants for so long without getting found out.
Hopefully with more folks pointing him out that won't happen much longer.
Of course, me and other members here will have to be on the lookout and report anything we see or think mightn't be right to either you, Tim, Jana, or Adam then.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Sept 14, 2021 4:40:01 GMT -5
WTF!!!  This is just insane. I'm in complete shock. What I found more crazy, is they got away with it for 20 years on so many online communities and social platforms. That means they have been doing it since the early days of the internet in the 90s. But members here will PM you Betty or Tim directly if we notice anything suspicious. |
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Post by adzpower on Sept 14, 2021 6:43:31 GMT -5
Whoa this is all kinds of f*cked up quite frankly. What a sick, sick man.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 14, 2021 10:33:45 GMT -5
Whoa this is all kinds of f*cked up quite frankly. What a sick, sick man. That's exactly how I felt when I first learned about this, myself. Completely disgusted.😣 I can't believe that I ever allowed this man to post at the site, but at least I gave him the boot years ago. He has a history of targeting young women who have gone through sexual abuse and trauma, especially if they're underage. His M.O. is to send them a "Can I talk to you?" message, share a made-up story of abuse and trauma, and then get his target to start opening up to him. There's nobody whose underage or an abuse survivor at this site, so he didn't get very far here, but that sadly hasn't been the case elsewhere. Seems like he was very active on LiveJournal in the 00s and migrated over to Tumblr in the 10s, both sites that were full of young, vulnerable people during their respective peaks. |
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Sept 14, 2021 12:59:06 GMT -5
It's obvious this man has no social life or friends being why he does this then.
I checked my past PM's I'd got here and at the Cafe this morning to see if I'd received anything suspiciously.
Thankfully I haven't but had I did and responded I wouldn't have been known the wiser about any of it until today actually.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 14, 2021 14:33:36 GMT -5
It's obvious this man has no social life or friends being why he does this then. I checked my past PM's I'd got here and at the Cafe this morning to see if I'd received anything suspiciously. Thankfully I haven't but had I did and responded I wouldn't have been known the wiser about any of it until today actually. I don't think he's ever shown up at the Cafe or any other Charmed sites. I guess it's because he's all about perving on underage girls (gag), and Charmed didn't have any besides the very short-lived Jenny Gordon. |
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Post by Tim on Sept 14, 2021 23:16:43 GMT -5
I think he was at the Cafe, but didn't stick around. I remember seeing one of his sock puppet names there.
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Post by Katie on Sept 15, 2021 0:12:05 GMT -5
I think he was at the Cafe, but didn't stick around. I remember seeing one of his sock puppet names there. I think so too. I do remember a member who didn't stick around long two years ago after I joined the Cafe. Must have found this site through here or vice versa. What a disgusting pig. A low life has nothing better to do. |
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Post by Tim on Sept 15, 2021 11:07:00 GMT -5
Actually, he was here because of me. Mind you, at the time I had no idea who he really was.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Sept 15, 2021 13:56:02 GMT -5
You weren't to know Tim. There are people out there good enough to fool anybody like when I got scammed in January time so these things can happen but then we learn from that and know what to watch out for next time obviously.
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Post by Tim on Sept 15, 2021 18:15:07 GMT -5
Still it makes my flesh crawl when I think that I considered this person a friend. It's possible they have child pornography on their computer.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 15, 2021 18:56:00 GMT -5
Still it makes my flesh crawl when I think that I considered this person a friend. It's possible they have child pornography on their computer. This is exactly why he poses as a woman online.😑 He knows he'd set off fewer alarm bells and get more people to trust him. This is why you can't trust people you meet on the internet. |
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Post by Tim on Sept 15, 2021 23:20:13 GMT -5
"Natalie" should be added to the Real Life section of that page. He would fit in perfectly.
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This is just insane. I'm in complete shock. 
