Around January 2013, CS reactivated my account but later deleted my profile again. CS told me it was their fault for the 2nd time & restored my CS account back to full health, again in 2013. This happened a few times & without warning. That means I lost many friends. I lost my references. I lost the money that I gave to CS. I was not getting anywhere. It was not fair.
Later, CS removed my account again. After that, I emailed CS asking them why. I emailed them many times.
CS told me they only deleted my account because people asked CS to. CS never told me what I did wrong, because I did not do anything wrong. I am no longer on CS at the moment. People on CS are spreading lies about me that are not true. People should not destroy others. That is what they are doing to me. They are persecuting me.
Here is an illegal post from Couch Surfing (CS) as follows:
Please
do NOT comment on this post!!! NO FIGHTING please! NO FOUL LANGUAGe
please! This post is merely to inform CS members as objectively as
possible about a potential security threat on CS Saigon!
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 nonsense 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?).
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 nonsense 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.).
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.
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS POST! THIS WAS POSTED ONLY TO INFORM PEOPLE!
I have also written a message to Allie of the CS Trust and Safety Team (see below). In her reply she is also very clear that it is NOT OKAY to have several fake profiles on this website!
Here her reply to me:
Hello Björn,
Thank you for contacting us. I'm sorry to hear that this issue persists.
Firstly, thank you for creating this post, and for caring about the safety of the community.
Creating duplicate profiles is definitely against our Terms of Use. We will take action against any new profiles that this member creates, once discovered.
Please do report any duplicate profiles to us so we can review. It would be helpful if you could encourage other members to do so as well.
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.
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS POST! THIS WAS POSTED ONLY TO INFORM PEOPLE!
I have also written a message to Allie of the CS Trust and Safety Team (see below). In her reply she is also very clear that it is NOT OKAY to have several fake profiles on this website!
Here her reply to me:
Hello Björn,
Thank you for contacting us. I'm sorry to hear that this issue persists.
Firstly, thank you for creating this post, and for caring about the safety of the community.
Creating duplicate profiles is definitely against our Terms of Use. We will take action against any new profiles that this member creates, once discovered.
Please do report any duplicate profiles to us so we can review. It would be helpful if you could encourage other members to do so as well.
It's
best to report to us directly before engaging with the abusive member,
as we are empowered to take further actions.
Have you met this member in person?
Have you met this member in person?
If so, do you have reason to believe
that he is a dangerous individual? You mentioned that other members
have had negative offline experiences with Joey.
Can you please
encourage them to contact us directly to let us know what happened?
Again, thank you for reporting this. I do hope that this issue gets resolved.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Warm regards,
Allie
Again, thank you for reporting this. I do hope that this issue gets resolved.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Warm regards,
Allie
Trust and Safety Team
Couchsurfing
