User Des R. (doctorgraim) is a scammer (Page 2 of 3)

This comes on the heels of Sebi saying they want more money for this website. I wouldn't pay a dime until they start having people wait for admin approval before their accounts are accepted.

While I totally get the sentiment, on the flipside, Sebi might not be able to do what he wants/needs until he acquires more revenue. That is why I said I would act as a mod in some compacity for free, just to help. I am online everyday for my job anyways might as well do something else when I am slow.

I'm glad other people are as concerned as I am. I just sent my message through the help/contact/ support and feedback route naming the user I thought was suspicious and he was flagged by the end of the day, but obviously it's not working. I did message him again bringing up that this specific user has now used multiple accounts to steal hundreds of dollars worth of cards from people through his site, and that he needs to address this issue ASAP so hopefully changed are coming.

So I don't know programming or anything like that, how hard is it to add a "report user" button in all profiles and when clicked will send an automated email to a specific (or all??) mod team. Someone can look into the account and if it looks suspicious, the can then lock down the account until a full investigation is complete. These mods can have a personal list of everyone on the scammer list do to comparison. If found guilty the kids can then fully ban an account.

Edit: I am going to email Sebi directly and point him to this thread in case he has not seen it.

Last edited by valdor (2016-04-10 16:43:00)

Ive been on this site successfully for years now and really love it. Would also volunteer some of my time that i have to help out in some capacity.

Well as I have said, I am willing to give my time to help with this so there is a little bit of the man hours. As for it being abused, well that is up to Sebi to makes sure that he chooses people that he feels can be trusted. As for other users abusing it well that is the job of the mods to investigate. If users abuse the system and falsely accuse multiple accounts for no reason, there should be punishment for that.

I am just attempting to provide suggestions that might help scammers. I realize it may not be a huge issue but a faster response time would always be good. It even helps with disputes. I hated when I had a despute I would have to wait 5/days for an initial response and then 2 or 3/days for a follow up response.

They are working on that i believe.

Yep. As it stands right now, does Sebi even know this Des guy is back?  If not, what a window of opportunity to rip users off.

We need to stand together as a community and have zero tolerance for these users, and to all unite together and make things safer for the community as a whole.

In the past, Sebi has declined users who offered to help for free as moderators, and is one of the reasons that there is a current Premium option.

Which in my opinion is absolutely useless. Yes, your problem will be addressed first but that still does nothing when you have already been scammed and there is no way to let others really know unless they make a post, which most might not read. So it is not solving any issues.

Also the scammer is targeting new member, who most likely have not gotten Premium since they are just testing the site out and giving it a trial run. So there is nothing in place to protect them.

I have never been affected by a scammer, but if a site does nothing to help protect new users, even turning down free help, well it is a site that I might not want to be a part of.

Perhaps there needs to be some sort of "flag" system if there is an open report about a user that appears next to their name similar to the green checkmark of premium users. Like a small "Red Flag" if there is a recent report or complaint in regards to said scammer to help draw attention? Mod team can then investigate the flags.

I was (still am?) part of the Mod-Team that handled the BTRs before the change to current system that happened sometime ago. The problem with having free Mods was the power that could be given to us. My power (in general) is limited  to really just closing and locking threads. This is no fault of Sebi or Deckbox because how much power can you expect give to a volunteer who could have access to personal or finanicial information about hundreds of other users? That's a security flaw and liability that Deckbox doesnt need to worry about.  More power to do things like lock accounts and ban people would require people who need to work for Deckbox in some capacity in order to cover that. I agree that Sebi does great work and could use some more help but its not as cut an dry as people would like it to be.