Hey Everyone,
I'm not sure which section to post this in since it deals mostly with Broke Straight Boys forum posters. But the site itself had nothing to do with the actions of these people. So I figure I'd put it here. Many of us longtime forum members in here already know about these fairly recent events. We know that "Spartans987" reached out to me and Broke Straight Boys management claiming to be Sparty's brother with the terrible news that Sparty had died in the Orlando massacre. We are now all but certain that that is total fiction. I was especially upset that he chose me (through Twitter) to deliver this false news. He caught me on Sunday night when I had a bad cold, my nerves were raw trying to find out if any Broke Straight Boys models were killed and I was checking by phone and social media if any of my friends in the Tampa area were killed. I was generally was not processing the day's events in Orlando very well. Then to add insult to injury, just as I'm trying to wind myself down to get ready for an early bedtime, so I could hopefully get over my cold faster, Sparty's "brother" waits until almost 11:00 pm to dump that bogus news on me. I got the Twitter DM to my phone.
Of course there were a few red flags here and there. I was not totally sold on the veracity of the story. But when you're literally sick and tired, and somebody tells you their family member has been brutally murdered, you (or at least I) don't go into immediate interrogation mode with the bereaved family member.
We had the forum poster named Casper years ago who really did do some harm. He tried to play this cute sweet twinkish kid of about 20 years old who was shy, very naïve to the ways of the world and confused about his sexuality. He set himself up to be a magnet of attention in here so that I guess he could have fun watching older guys try to flirt with him...and try to get younger guys in here to send him naked pictures of themselves. He purposely wrote in a format of that of a rural small-town kid who didn't do well in school or who was a little bit special. Like Forest Gump. As it turns out, Casper was really some 50ish year old grown man who got kick out of playing everybody for fools. Once he was exposed and outed here, I have no doubt that he went trolling other unsuspecting people on other sites with the same lies and game about being a rather slow but cute young sexually confused 18-20 y/o kid.
Just a couple months ago something else came out about no less than 3 former Broke Straight Boys forum members. Robert in Amsterdam and Jon (in Liverton) deserve all of the credit on this one. Jon became suspicious of online friends he had had for YEARS after meeting them on the Broke Straight Boys forum here. Here is the cast of characters. They are Nsreed (Uncle Ned)and the uncle of Rick Bell from Texas, Rick Bell the graduate school student working to get his PhD in Oceanography and travelling the world by boat out in the Pacific, and his fiancé Bradley Reed the Iraq war veteran who was studying to be a commercial airline pilot.
On another site we were told the story of how Rick and the love of his life (Brad) met up in Hawaii and were living there after Brad's final deployments ended and he retired from the military. They were building their beautiful lives together and had decided to move to Australia. They wrote to us from their new home in Australia and raved about how Rick was pursuing his dreams in Oceanograhy and Bradley was chasing his dreams by flying planes there to get all of his certifications completed.
So over the years we had Uncle Ned living in Texas, Rick studying on boats out in the Pacific, then Rick living by himself in Hawaii and writing to us from there, then we had Rick and Brad both writing us from Hawaii after Brad left the military...and then Rick and Brad writing us from separate forum profile accounts from Australia. On another site that Robert manages, and after Jon became suspicious, Robert looked into the three accounts. Robert (who is an IT guy by profession) did some digging and was able to find the IP addreses of these 3 people. He found out that all of these postings in a chat room (and no doubt here in the Broke Straight Boys forum) were all being sent from 1 single computer...in Texas.
When confronted by this revelation that all of these previous messages from Australia were being sent from Texas...all three of these supposed people made themselves invisible and disappeared faster than Casper the Ghost. Also, all these pictures of Rick and Brad were found to be internet fakes and were actually traced to other people on the internet. The thing that bothers me is that "Rick" definitely (and possibly Brad also) still have profiles with fake pictures on sites like Chatterbate (while never broadcasting of course) and likely other sites too. So this one person is free to pick up and continue the same game elsewhere online.
So while we want to be trusting of people in general, online we do have to be especially careful and on our guard. It sounds rather axiomatic to say it, but we can't be too trusting of the identity or intentions of anybody we meet online.
I'm not sure which section to post this in since it deals mostly with Broke Straight Boys forum posters. But the site itself had nothing to do with the actions of these people. So I figure I'd put it here. Many of us longtime forum members in here already know about these fairly recent events. We know that "Spartans987" reached out to me and Broke Straight Boys management claiming to be Sparty's brother with the terrible news that Sparty had died in the Orlando massacre. We are now all but certain that that is total fiction. I was especially upset that he chose me (through Twitter) to deliver this false news. He caught me on Sunday night when I had a bad cold, my nerves were raw trying to find out if any Broke Straight Boys models were killed and I was checking by phone and social media if any of my friends in the Tampa area were killed. I was generally was not processing the day's events in Orlando very well. Then to add insult to injury, just as I'm trying to wind myself down to get ready for an early bedtime, so I could hopefully get over my cold faster, Sparty's "brother" waits until almost 11:00 pm to dump that bogus news on me. I got the Twitter DM to my phone.
Of course there were a few red flags here and there. I was not totally sold on the veracity of the story. But when you're literally sick and tired, and somebody tells you their family member has been brutally murdered, you (or at least I) don't go into immediate interrogation mode with the bereaved family member.
We had the forum poster named Casper years ago who really did do some harm. He tried to play this cute sweet twinkish kid of about 20 years old who was shy, very naïve to the ways of the world and confused about his sexuality. He set himself up to be a magnet of attention in here so that I guess he could have fun watching older guys try to flirt with him...and try to get younger guys in here to send him naked pictures of themselves. He purposely wrote in a format of that of a rural small-town kid who didn't do well in school or who was a little bit special. Like Forest Gump. As it turns out, Casper was really some 50ish year old grown man who got kick out of playing everybody for fools. Once he was exposed and outed here, I have no doubt that he went trolling other unsuspecting people on other sites with the same lies and game about being a rather slow but cute young sexually confused 18-20 y/o kid.
Just a couple months ago something else came out about no less than 3 former Broke Straight Boys forum members. Robert in Amsterdam and Jon (in Liverton) deserve all of the credit on this one. Jon became suspicious of online friends he had had for YEARS after meeting them on the Broke Straight Boys forum here. Here is the cast of characters. They are Nsreed (Uncle Ned)and the uncle of Rick Bell from Texas, Rick Bell the graduate school student working to get his PhD in Oceanography and travelling the world by boat out in the Pacific, and his fiancé Bradley Reed the Iraq war veteran who was studying to be a commercial airline pilot.
On another site we were told the story of how Rick and the love of his life (Brad) met up in Hawaii and were living there after Brad's final deployments ended and he retired from the military. They were building their beautiful lives together and had decided to move to Australia. They wrote to us from their new home in Australia and raved about how Rick was pursuing his dreams in Oceanograhy and Bradley was chasing his dreams by flying planes there to get all of his certifications completed.
So over the years we had Uncle Ned living in Texas, Rick studying on boats out in the Pacific, then Rick living by himself in Hawaii and writing to us from there, then we had Rick and Brad both writing us from Hawaii after Brad left the military...and then Rick and Brad writing us from separate forum profile accounts from Australia. On another site that Robert manages, and after Jon became suspicious, Robert looked into the three accounts. Robert (who is an IT guy by profession) did some digging and was able to find the IP addreses of these 3 people. He found out that all of these postings in a chat room (and no doubt here in the Broke Straight Boys forum) were all being sent from 1 single computer...in Texas.
When confronted by this revelation that all of these previous messages from Australia were being sent from Texas...all three of these supposed people made themselves invisible and disappeared faster than Casper the Ghost. Also, all these pictures of Rick and Brad were found to be internet fakes and were actually traced to other people on the internet. The thing that bothers me is that "Rick" definitely (and possibly Brad also) still have profiles with fake pictures on sites like Chatterbate (while never broadcasting of course) and likely other sites too. So this one person is free to pick up and continue the same game elsewhere online.
So while we want to be trusting of people in general, online we do have to be especially careful and on our guard. It sounds rather axiomatic to say it, but we can't be too trusting of the identity or intentions of anybody we meet online.
Well, almost, a girl on a gay site.
, I was expecting that you would look like this. 
