Someone Is Impersonating Me On Twitch, Do Not Fall For It – WGB

Hey everybody,

I haven’t stopped to write down a private message shortly, however an excellent Twitch samaritan named SaucySnark introduced this to my consideration and I wished to do what I can do make sure that everyone seems to be conscious of it.

Some muppet on Twitch going by the title of wolfsgaminghubb is utilizing my web site emblem, and seems to be working some type of rip-off primarily based on pretending to be me. He popped into SaucySnark’sawesome Helldivers 2 stream and stated: “I run a big gaming criticism platform with a Twitch-heavy viewers. We’re choosing one helldivers streamer for a 14-day featured development case examine centered on character. You match the profile.”

Clearly, that’s not me. I didn’t have a Twitch account previous to the one I simply made to report this ludicrous cockwomble, nor do I run case development research outdoors of finding out how a lot my abdomen grows after I raid the native all you may eat buffet.

“I’ll characteristic you throughout my weblog for 14 days with structured articles, embedded streams, homepage placement, and direct calls-to-action to our Twitch viewers. We observe follower and viewer development earlier than and after,” stated the imposter.

SaucySnark pointed me towards the video of his stream the place you may see the douchebag seem within the chat at round 17:50. You may see it right here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2706488470

SaucySnark informed me that the faux wished to speak on Discord utilizing the username ronie100, which is my surname. Minus the 100, clearly. Though now I type of want that was my precise title. Hmm. The imposter claimed they might “ship a hyperlink to my blogs”, so I assume the intent was to direct SaucySnark to right here with a view to show their identification. In fact, SaucySnark is probably the most epic individual on the planet and didn’t fall for such a daft plan.

It’s a basic rip-off, actually. Decide a small web site that has sufficient visitors and presence to level individuals towards however that isn’t tremendous well-known in order that no person notices the impersonation happening. I received fortunate that the superb SaucySnark observed one thing was up and took the time to message me. Please, please, when you have a Twitch account, go try SaucySnark on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/saucysnark

As for the imposter, I created a Twitch account with a view to report them correctly, and can hopefully heard from Twitch quickly and might start engaged on getting them banned. Nonetheless, I’m not super-hopeful but as my previous experiences with getting impersonators stopped has not been nice. I’ve had this whole web site cloned a number of occasions up to now.

Thanks for taking the time to learn this everybody. Please hold your eyes open for all scams. It’s far too simple to stroll into them typically, even for probably the most vigilant of us.

In the event you want to assist, report them on Twitch: Go to twitch.television/wolfsgaminghubb, three dots > Report > Person > Search > Impersonation. Point out the VOD: twitch.television/movies/2706488470 (17:50-31:30).

For future reference: I’ve no official Twitch channel, nor any public Discord username for this web site. The one social media I keep is on Twitter and BlueSky, each of which I barely ever use. In the event you see me anyplace else, it most likely isn’t me. However in case you are ever unsure, be happy to contact me right here by way of the web site.