yossarian said:
We never definitively established whether it was a scam or not. Just assuming it's a scam doesn't make it so.
It's not an assumption, it was a scam. If the model told absolutely no lies then her ex boyfriend logged into her myfreecams account, somehow at the same time as she was on cam, (maybe put a recording of her up in the room) pretended to be her in pm, persuaded someone to send him money through paypal, though seeing as paypal gives out real names, he persuaded him to send him money to her paypal account, (So he's hacked into her finances as well as her work site?), obviously no show is given. That is a scam. As the model knows he is doing this, (or it is just her doing this), and she hasn't taken precautions, like changing her username and password, then she is involved in the scam for allowing it to happen, regardless of whether what she's saying is the truth or not. It's not a situation where she fell asleep or took a few days to do a skype already paid for. It's a situation where she's actually said that the money has been taken. Seeing as it seems she hasn't actually sent any money back then her saying she'd send the money back is a downright lie.
And Punk, I don't think anyone would blame the baby.... Though I will agree with you, people are generally more inclined to believe models and distrust members. The reason generally being, there are more scamming members than there are models, which is obvious as there are way more members than models, but I also think the percentage of members scamming models is still dramatically higher than the percentage of models scamming members. I assume this is because if a model scams a member, word gets around and she'll end up losing out on money and members. For a model financially it isn't worth messing around and making enemies, whilst members can hide in the shadows, members who successfully scam models pretty much always get away with it. Because there are so many members who twist stories/think they get scammed when they really don't, or who like to badmouth models for no other reason than not liking them, then yes, it is understandable why members word generally has less credit than models. Sorry members, you just don't have as much to lose by talking out your arses than we do.
Even so, in this case I think the member made a decision absolutely any of us could have made. It was the wrong decision and now he knows better, but that's all he's actually done wrong here. Sometimes people make stupid mistakes, but jesus, I've seen models on here turn around and admit they sent a member $1000 because they told them they were going to tip them a massive tip , and obviously never see money back from it, we were much nicer to that girl than we've been to Misono. Although I'm pretty sure a few of us might have called her stupid.... at the end of the day, the girl made a mistake, yes it was something most people would have realised was a scam quickly, but unfortunately plenty of others have made that same mistake, and I'm glad she warned us about the member. Some people are more trusting than others. I hate that we live in a world where being trusting=stupid.