I woke up this morning, got a cup of coffee from the Keurig rig, and logged in to SA . Only to discover, to my horror, that hundred, and hundreds and hundreds of profiles from all over the country have been added to my Favorites file! More are popping up every second, even as I write this. I didn't favorite them myself, since I was asleep at the time! Anybody else having this problem?? Check your Favorited file and report back. And yes, I did create a Support Ticket and sent it to Seeking Admin. Sure hope they fix this!
...and now, just 2 hours later, when I try to login it says my account has been deleted. Fuck! What is going on?
and now, just 2 hours later, when I tried to login it says my account has been deleted! What the fuck is going on?
Just logged on about 30 minutes ago to work my M&Gs for Manila in a week and a half.
No problems for me. I had 4 viewed, 2 favs and one message. Sent a reply, plus a new message to one of the profiles that favorited me.
Hope they fix this shit ASAP!
Life is good
The Cat
For now. No problems.
What no ubiquitous notice from SA that your account has violated their rules of engagement? How dare they delete your account without flaming you!!
Sounds like you may have been hacked.
Here's the incredibly disrespectful, annoying message I got from Seeking:
Thank you for inquiring about your account. We have permanently removed your account and we are unable to reinstate it. Please read our FAQs for additional information.
Your payment has been refunded at this time and you should see the credit within 5-10 business days.
You are banned from Seeking.com and any of our sister sites. Future attempts to access the site will be considered a continued violation of our Terms of Use. Our decision is final and any future inquiries about this suspension will not receive a response.
Best Regards,
IvySeeking Support
Have you figured out why you were banned? I’m afraid to say anything on SA and or to give out my phone number.
SA deleted me several years ago after I, too, was unfairly maligned and unable to defend myself. Whether it was a hack or a malign young woman I know not. But all attempts to make my case have been rebuffed. None of the other services are its equal, I'm afraid, but I'd love to hear any ideas. I've done Sugar Daddy Meet, SB and Tinder, etc., with very limited success..
I agree - your account must have been hacked.
And Seeking must have invoked some type of "bad actor" protocol without investigating. I wonder if they punched the kill button before they processed your support request?
Questions:
1. When did you last change your SA password?
2. Do you use your SA password on any other site?
3. Have you tried a google search of your user-name, a search of your password? (This can often tell you if your credentials have been stolen and posted)
4. PC ani-virus up to date?
5. Any recent POT's that acted suspicious or scammer-like?
This totally sucks and will put a serious dent in your sugar life. Wondering if you can find some other communication vector to a senior exec at SA who can bypass the bullshit "no response" teams?
I'd say Life is good, but this sucks!
The Cat
Terribly unfair Sweetman, hope you can sort things out.
Possibly check the Reddit forum for ideas.
What I would do would be to wait a week and try to start a new free account using a VPN or from a different device or location with some of your personal info changed. If it holds you might be able to upgrade with sone smoke and mirrors.
You were an ideal customer…
Thanks for all the moral support and good ideas guys, I really appreciate it. I was pretty damn bummed about it, for about a day and a half. But the best therapy for a troubled mind is pussy! Right? Right! So this afternoon's session with SB #1 was incredibly therapeutic. I quit brooding about problems and concentrated on what's really important in life: making my sweet young lover cum over and over and over.
fitnessbuff1: I have not figured out why I was banned. When I logged on Monday morning I noticed hundreds and hundreds of new Favorites in my Favorites file, from all over the country. I didn't put them there, and I was asleep, it all happened during the early hours. More appeared, several per minute, in real time as I was logged on Monday morning. Some sort of bot was adding Favorites on my account!
tozer: Sorry you had a similar problem, but:
Scaramouche: It is terribly unfair, and just irks the hell outta me that they won't discuss the matter with me. No recourse. I'm quite sure that a careful examination of my account would clearly show that I could not have perpetrated whatever bad behavior they are basing their decision on. It happened at night when I was asleep, for fucks sake! But trying to reason with unreasonable people is a losing proposition, so I don't think I'll waste any more time on it.
And finally, to Herb's questions:
1. I have not changed my SA password in years.
2. I use different passwords for every site.
3. I have not tried googling but I will.
4. My PC anti virus is def NOT up to date. Gotta fix that asap.
5. There have def been a few recent contacts who I think were clearly of the pig butchering type. I was unfailingly polite with all of them though.
Now I get to reinvent myself as a sugar daddy! Kinda looking forward to it; what should I say, what pics should I post, etc. I'll create a new email account for the purpose and leave no trail to Sweetman. Poor guy, he had a good run though, right?
II have no doubt that you will land on your feet or at least face first into a new sweet young thang's pussy!!! Add using a VPN to your list of things to change too.
Thanks for the update, Papa Sweet.
Looks like using a VPN is now your most important tool. Fortunately, there are inexpensive VPN apps for PC's and phones available.
As to your answers to my questions, here's my feedback/speculation:
1. Seeking as a platform probably was not hacked. If it was, many more users would be reporting odd behavior and SA would have sent a (legally required) notice to all user who may have been impacted.
2. More likely, your login and password were compromised, probably some time ago, and were sold as part of a list of "cracked" accounts on the dark web. It's unlikely that a potential "pig butcher" would do this to you since there is no money in it for them. They probably would not bother spending time on anything that doesn't lead to cash.
3. Along with now setting up a VPN on your device - you can set one up to start every time you power on your PC - you must keep your anti-virus updated and on at all times. Set it to auto-update virus definition and continuously scan in the background. In addition enable it to auto-scan any file you download, and to auto-scan any website you visit.
4. Change all your passwords now - even the non-sugar sites. If your Seeking credentials have been compromised, its likely the rest of your accounts are compromised as well. If possible, also change your user ID (i.e. If you use "sweetman" today, change it to "sweetman1", or "sweetdude" etc. I do this once every 6 months for all my online accounts. It takes me about 4 hours to crawl across all of my bookmarks, but it's time well spent.
5. Do a google search of your user ID's and passwords at least once every 90 days. If you get any hits, make changes.
Tools I use:
1. Nord VPN
2. Norton Anti-virus. I have a 5-device license.
You will bounce back from this, I have no doubt!
Life is good
The Cat
Herb, good advice as always.
1. I agree, I was hacked, not Seeking. Their legal requirement to notify users is something I had not considered.
2. I agree, but what motive would anyone have in messing up my account? Sheer malicious mischief??
3. My wife likes Kaspersky and she has updated our Kaspersky protection and now I have Kaspersky's VPN available. My understanding is that I have to launch it whenever I want to use it.
4. Changing all my passwords sounds like a dreadful way to spend an afternoon! But I agree it's most likely a necessity for me at this time, not an option. I have about 300 passwords for different sites. I'll start with the most critical and wok my way through them.
5. I googled my username and password for my deleted SA account and got no hits. Do I need to google all 300?
I have tried creating a new SA account, without success. I'll post more about that tomorrow, sorta burned out for now.
SA will know the IP address you were using for every log in. I don't know if it's worth arguing with SA, but it seems that were NOT using a VPN, and that all of your logins must have been from your local ISP (within small variations for different computers you might use, laptop vs desktop, and some dynamic randomness. The hackers MUST have logged in from some other address, probably using a VPN and a spoofed ip address (they are in Russia; the ip address spoofs a location in Canada).
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More technical folks can explain it better but it sounds like SA won't care how much proof you can provide.
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Also consider one of those identity protection services like LifeLock.
Thanks for all the moral support and good ideas guys, I really appreciate it. I was pretty damn bummed about it, for about a day and a half. But the best therapy for a troubled mind is pussy! Right? Right! So this afternoon's session with SB #1 was incredibly therapeutic. I quit brooding about problems and concentrated on what's really important in life: making my sweet young lover cum over and over and over.
fitnessbuff1: I have not figured out why I was banned. When I logged on Monday morning I noticed hundreds and hundreds of new Favorites in my Favorites file, from all over the country. I didn't put them there, and I was asleep, it all happened during the early hours. More appeared, several per minute, in real time as I was logged on Monday morning. Some sort of bot was adding Favorites on my account!
tozer: Sorry you had a similar problem, but:
Scaramouche: It is terribly unfair, and just irks the hell outta me that they won't discuss the matter with me. No recourse. I'm quite sure that a careful examination of my account would clearly show that I could not have perpetrated whatever bad behavior they are basing their decision on. It happened at night when I was asleep, for fucks sake! But trying to reason with unreasonable people is a losing proposition, so I don't think I'll waste any more time on it.
And finally, to Herb's questions:
1. I have not changed my SA password in years.
2. I use different passwords for every site.
3. I have not tried googling but I will.
4. My PC anti virus is def NOT up to date. Gotta fix that asap.
5. There have def been a few recent contacts who I think were clearly of the pig butchering type. I was unfailingly polite with all of them though.
Now I get to reinvent myself as a sugar daddy! Kinda looking forward to it; what should I say, what pics should I post, etc. I'll create a new email account for the purpose and leave no trail to Sweetman. Poor guy, he had a good run though, right?
Imposter, thanks for the info. No, I was NOT using a VPN previously, and no doubt that's one reason I'm dealing with this problem now. I only added the VPN to my PC yesterday. If I understand enough about how this all works, when I create a new account, with the VPN running, SA will not be able to see that it's coming from the same IP address as before. I agree, SA won't care how much proof I can provide.
Yes changins passwords is important, start with the critical ones. Or consider a password manager (sometimes added onto a VPN).
As for the motive, it's interesting. A lot of scams are directed at women, even though they are different from the ones we encounter.. There is probably a version of pig butchering aimed at women to lure them into bogus investments.
Consider yourself lucky you didn't get your bank account hacked or sucked into a romance scam.