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Frustrating Frauds and How to Find Them
7 years ago
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Sadly yet again I have been alerted to another fraudulent Umiriko copycats using my name, artwork and posing as me in a number of places, with the most recent one going around on discord sending invites to a server I have no connection to. The server isn't responsible in anyway and the owner has been very helpful and understanding. So in light of this most recent case I thought I would write a quick spotters guide to help anyone encountering a wild Umi determine if they should be suspicious or if you have indeed located the elusive water dragon hirself.
1) Location Location Location -
The easiest way to properly identify the real deal is by it being from one of these sources:
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/umiriko/
https://aryion.com/g4/user/Umiriko
https://www.patreon.com/Umiriko
https://www.deviantart.com/umiriko
https://www.f-list.net/c/umiriko
If you find someone posting Umiriko artwork or chatting away claiming they are me and it is not in one of these locations, best to treat it as suspicious, I do have a few accounts here and there on websites but I don't post art on them. I do not have an offical social media account such as twitter, facebook, and tumbler. I also do not have a youtube channel and do not wish for any of my content to be there. I am on discord but mostly only in my own Patreon channel that supports UmiBot, I also have a telegram account but again I am in very few groups and not overly active.
2) Activity -
As much as I do enjoy role-playing I am sadly a very busy dragon and have all but pulled out of it bar a few exceptions for special people or groups. If you find an Umiriko advertising they are RPing, asking people to contact them for RPs or a similar, sadly it is unlikely to be me.
Posting artwork I have drawn or commissioned on any site other than the above list is very unlike me.
Lastly promotion and advertisement, I am very unlikely to do any promoting for other places, groups, servers or people unless it is on one of the above websites. I don't go around contacting people at random for things like this so please again treat these sorts of thing with suspicion.
I am also someone who likes to get to know people a little before moving to IMs, so if you were to contact me on one I would be very likely to direct you to Ekas or FA to chat there before going back to the IM account. If I just accept your invite and carry on it might be worth treating it with suspicion.
3) If in any doubt just ask here (^. .^)
I would much rather get 20 messages from people I have genuinely contacted asking for me to confirm it is the real Umi speaking to them, than 1 person be tricked by a fake copycat Umi and mislead. It is lying, dishonest and deceitful and I would very much like it to stop. So if you have any doubts or just want to double check you have found the right Umi, simply message me here and I will be more than happy to confirm for you.
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Hope that little spotters guide will help protect you all from any fake copycats out there and their attempts to deceive you.
Again hope you all have a fantastic end to the year and all the best wishes in 2019, lots of big slurps to you all (^. .^)
Umi x
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Sadly yet again I have been alerted to another fraudulent Umiriko copycats using my name, artwork and posing as me in a number of places, with the most recent one going around on discord sending invites to a server I have no connection to. The server isn't responsible in anyway and the owner has been very helpful and understanding. So in light of this most recent case I thought I would write a quick spotters guide to help anyone encountering a wild Umi determine if they should be suspicious or if you have indeed located the elusive water dragon hirself.
1) Location Location Location -
The easiest way to properly identify the real deal is by it being from one of these sources:
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/umiriko/
https://aryion.com/g4/user/Umiriko
https://www.patreon.com/Umiriko
https://www.deviantart.com/umiriko
https://www.f-list.net/c/umiriko
If you find someone posting Umiriko artwork or chatting away claiming they are me and it is not in one of these locations, best to treat it as suspicious, I do have a few accounts here and there on websites but I don't post art on them. I do not have an offical social media account such as twitter, facebook, and tumbler. I also do not have a youtube channel and do not wish for any of my content to be there. I am on discord but mostly only in my own Patreon channel that supports UmiBot, I also have a telegram account but again I am in very few groups and not overly active.
2) Activity -
As much as I do enjoy role-playing I am sadly a very busy dragon and have all but pulled out of it bar a few exceptions for special people or groups. If you find an Umiriko advertising they are RPing, asking people to contact them for RPs or a similar, sadly it is unlikely to be me.
Posting artwork I have drawn or commissioned on any site other than the above list is very unlike me.
Lastly promotion and advertisement, I am very unlikely to do any promoting for other places, groups, servers or people unless it is on one of the above websites. I don't go around contacting people at random for things like this so please again treat these sorts of thing with suspicion.
I am also someone who likes to get to know people a little before moving to IMs, so if you were to contact me on one I would be very likely to direct you to Ekas or FA to chat there before going back to the IM account. If I just accept your invite and carry on it might be worth treating it with suspicion.
3) If in any doubt just ask here (^. .^)
I would much rather get 20 messages from people I have genuinely contacted asking for me to confirm it is the real Umi speaking to them, than 1 person be tricked by a fake copycat Umi and mislead. It is lying, dishonest and deceitful and I would very much like it to stop. So if you have any doubts or just want to double check you have found the right Umi, simply message me here and I will be more than happy to confirm for you.
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Hope that little spotters guide will help protect you all from any fake copycats out there and their attempts to deceive you.
Again hope you all have a fantastic end to the year and all the best wishes in 2019, lots of big slurps to you all (^. .^)
Umi x
Happy New Year!
happy new year sweetie