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I'm Thông, a 20-year-young man. I officially lost my job two week agos ;( I was teaching Vietnamese to a Malaysian guy but now he quits as he can run his own self-study Vietnamese class.... That's either good news or bad news to me.
Well, I post this thread in the extreme hope of getting a new part-time job because I feel so uncomfortable when using my parents'money.... I did try Craiglist but it did not work at all. There was a man whose name is Robert Greco, he offered me a job (as a Vietnamese teacher and translator) and I was more than happy to accept it. However, on the day we met up, this man just talked nonsense instead of going straight to the business. He then showed me his company, which is actually a "Ghost company"....Phews, luckily, I realized that, laced up my boots, yelled some bad words at him ;P and quickly walked on home...........
Oh oh, I think I should go back, sorry, just got off the subject so far.
Hmm, Do you have any recommendations to me? I'm grateful for any replies.
Thank you so very much !
T
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- 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?). 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.
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? 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
Trust and Safety Team
Couchsurfing - Excuse me if this thread is a bit diffuse and far ranging.
I’ve just got a lot of stuff to throw out there.
So onto the adventure ideas thing.
I’m a big fan of pushing the envelope and trying out weird exciting things and challenges.
random potential adventure examples-
having a competition with another non-native viet speaker to see who can make the most money Xe Om for an hour, swimming across a lake, taking a couple day bicycle ride, climbing a mountain, wandering around trying to beat strangers at rock paper scissors, semi-impromptu running marathon through the city, trying to learn hip-hop dancing, making a short 1-day movie, shining shoes for the day.
Ok that’s it for brainstorming.
I’m new to HCMC, so if anyone has any ideas for an Saigon-centric weird, awesome or potentially risky things I can get up too, please throw it out there
I’m going to be pretty busy studying for a super-hard (word on the street ) CELTA course, but I still want to cram in some adventures and hijinks
So, item 2
partner in crime
I’d like someone of a similar mindset. And adventurous, offbeat, artistic temperament= cool.
Mind you you don’t have to want to crazy adventures every second of every day or anything ,
I like going to pubs, watching movies and doing normal stuff too.
…..
onto the “hint” section
-Does anyone have any hot tips on where to buy and sell stuff (OTHER than craigslist, TNH) Vietnamese language sites, even?
-I’m looking for a place to get a 1 month VISA (mine will expire in July) Any recommendations on agents and price estimates?
-ALSO, I’d like to rent a moto on the cheap if anybody’s got any hot leads/recommendations.
….
Wow! that’s a long post.
Ryan OUT - I had a missed call from a random number so I called them back and they said, "long time no talk, let's meet." I asked them for their name and I had no clue who they were, but I thought it would be embarrassing if it was someone I didn't remember. So I texted her my address and we met at a noodle place nearby.
She definitely seemed like a prostitute & said we met at "Bar 51" 7 or 8 months ago. I've never been to that bar and I've only been here 4 or 5 months. After I caught on to her bullsh*t I started leading her on with false information to see if she'd go along with it. Sure enough she did. I caught her in more than enough lies to know that she was sketchy. I left and told her to text me her address if she wanted to meet again. I can't be certain but I think the most plausible conclusions are that:
1.) she was trying to scope my apartment for her friends to rob later.
2.) she is just a lonely girl who gets people's phone numbers & pretends to have met them before as an ice breaker.
Pretty sure it's the former one. Oh, and I don't know how she actually got my number but I'm foolish & trusting enough to list it publicly on my CS profile. Well, not anymore.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
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If you want Joey/Oatmeal/Kim/whateverhisnameis to piss off and leave us alone, the very simple solution is to STOP RESPONDING TO HIM WHEN HE POSTS ON HERE. Just ignore him. He is looking for attention and validation, and every time you reply to him or acknowledge him, no matter how well thought your argument, you are giving him the attention he seeks and encouraging him to post again. So stop.
Please guys. I know it's difficult, but it's the only way!
If you still need convincing, read point #4 here: http://bit.ly/1b4nPtc