Dear fellow Couchsurfing members,
As you might have noticed (it was actually pretty hard not to notice it), a person has persistently been spamming our Saigon CS forum over the last few weeks/months and has been creating numerous fake profiles: He calls himself Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal, Dan Henderson, Bob Max, Kim Freeman and he has probably been using several other names.
One of our trustworthy Saigon Couchsurfing members (Tram Pham) has actually seen his passport, so we know his real name, which is Joey Arnold, born 1985.
We want to advise the community to stay away from this individual. Please do not support him or encourage him to spread his crap on this website/forum. Please completely ignore him and his posts and don't reply to his posts. He cannot be considered trustworthy (otherwise, why would a person continuously create fake profiles?). It is clearly against the guidelines and rules of Couchsurfing to create several profiles with different names to purposely delude other members. And it is also clearly against the rules and guidelines to spam this forum with nonsensical messages. With his reckless behaviour and disregard of these rules he is clearly threatening the safety and well-being of other CS members and is undermining the CS security system. Couchsurfing headquarters keep deleting his fake profiles, as they also consider him a security threat, but so far Joey Arnold has simply continued to create new fake profiles with new fake names. This behaviour can not be tolerated as it is threatening the safety of other CS members.
Please be wary when replying to posts which were created by people with empty profiles (that means no profile picture, no profile information given, no references, no vouches, etc.). It might be Joey or some other creep who is trying to trick you into believing that he is somebody who he is actually not. Of course, when you are a new member of Couchsurfing, you will not have any references yet and nobody will have vouched for you yet. But it should go without saying that you should provide the community with some information about yourself with which you can earn their trust. After all, this is a website and community which is build on trust, so the least that members can do is to provide some information about themselves to earn the trust of other members. So I'm urging you: Please fill out your profiles completely! Don't take the trust of this community for granted, but please understand that you also have to make an effort to make this community work!
My apologies for such a long message, but we consider it especially important to inform new members of CS of this current "Joey"-situation and to help them to use this great website safely and with care.
We will re-post this message on a regular basis to inform new CS members about this security threat and to ensure the safety of new CS members who haven't made the acquaintance of "Joey" yet.
Stay safe!
I
need to get a 3 month multi entry visa in Saigon - any recommendations
for cheapest / best places that do it? thx... (please list price if you
know it).
(I currently have a 3 month single entry I got in China)
(I currently have a 3 month single entry I got in China)
The official price for the
muliple entry visa is 95$ (recent stamp in my passport, last year it was
almost half). I can pm you a contact who does extensions, but the price
is not below 120$ (haven't talked to her for a few months, but I don't
believe it's gotten cheaper). Some guys in Dave's ESL forum (VN section)
could maybe name cheaper options.
Give
me a room & I can teach you English. Deal? I would like to find a
cheaper room for rent apartment. I am paying less than 3.000.000 VND per
month for a room in district Binh Thanh. I want to find a cheaper room.
Give me a free room & I can give you free English lessons. I have
been teaching for the past 3 months.
Talk to me. Ask me questions. Give me advice. Add me on Facebook. My name on Facebook is the Original Oatmeal. I am looking around for cheaper restaurants, bikes, phones, laptops, apartments, backpacks, glasses adjustments, basketball courts, dance clubs, & I love making new friends.
Talk to me. Ask me questions. Give me advice. Add me on Facebook. My name on Facebook is the Original Oatmeal. I am looking around for cheaper restaurants, bikes, phones, laptops, apartments, backpacks, glasses adjustments, basketball courts, dance clubs, & I love making new friends.
You can talk to me about anything. I love to sing, dance,
write, draw, teach English, basketball, video games, help others, invent
things, make people laugh, travel, bike, sports, games, Star Wars,
Power Rangers, Will Smith, Michael Jackson, music, Tom Hanks, mystery,
comedy, Robin Williams, Matrix, Lord Of The Rings, Narnia, Metal Gear,
& with Oatmeal in my bowl, is Jesus in your soul?
Joey Arnold
The Original Oatmeal
http://FaceBook.com/OriginalOatmeal
OriginalOatmeal@Gmail.com
http://OriginalOatmeal.WordPress.com
Skype: Original Oatmeal
http://Youtube.com/OriginalOatmeal
http://Tagged.com/OriginalOatmeal
(84) 0-163-425-1695
Joey Arnold
The Original Oatmeal
http://FaceBook.com/OriginalOatmeal
OriginalOatmeal@Gmail.com
http://OriginalOatmeal.WordPress.com
Skype: Original Oatmeal
http://Youtube.com/OriginalOatmeal
http://Tagged.com/OriginalOatmeal
(84) 0-163-425-1695
Leave people alone Joey, Dan,
or whatever your f*** real name is!!! So far you have had at least 3-4
different CS profiles with several different names which is definitely
violating the rules of this community. There is a reason why CS
headquarters keeps deleting your profiles! Because you keep putting up
fake profiles and you are spamming the forums of this community!
Therefore you must be considered a security threat for the Couchsurfing community (and your pointless blablabla must certainly also be considered a threat to the mental sanity of every reasonable living being on this planet)!
Stop creating new profiles! It is violating CS guidelines and rules! CS deleted your profiles for a reason!
And stop posting bullshit on this (or any other) CS forum.
If you are so desperate for attention, go to your bathroom mirror and start talking to yourself. If you listen very carefully (provided that you are actually able to LISTEN, because so far you have managed simply to ignore any kind of advice or concern from this community), you might even notice how much nonsense your mouth is actually capable of producing!!!
Stop pestering people!!!!!!
Therefore you must be considered a security threat for the Couchsurfing community (and your pointless blablabla must certainly also be considered a threat to the mental sanity of every reasonable living being on this planet)!
Stop creating new profiles! It is violating CS guidelines and rules! CS deleted your profiles for a reason!
And stop posting bullshit on this (or any other) CS forum.
If you are so desperate for attention, go to your bathroom mirror and start talking to yourself. If you listen very carefully (provided that you are actually able to LISTEN, because so far you have managed simply to ignore any kind of advice or concern from this community), you might even notice how much nonsense your mouth is actually capable of producing!!!
Stop pestering people!!!!!!
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